On the Moby Prince disaster "there are no deeds or documents that are subject to secrecy classifications, as it does not appear that any limits have been placed on access to the documentation held by the General Command or the Port Authority following the requests made by the 'Judicial authority and parliamentary committees ".
The Prime Minister Mario Draghi wrote this to Andrea Romano, president of the parliamentary commission on the disaster of 10 April 1991, when the Navarma ferry collided with Agip Abruzzo, in the sea in front of Livorno, triggering a fire that cost 140 lives. people.
In short, the premier confirmed that there are no "top secret" files concerning the massacre and that all the documentary material on the incident is fully available.
In his letter to the commission, Draghi defines that of the Moby Prince "an open wound for Italy", underlining that he fully shares "the need to commit to the construction of the truth about the facts and shed light on the responsibilities and circumstances that caused the 'terrible tragedy ".
The one chaired by Romano is the second parliamentary commission of inquiry dealing with the still controversial case.
"In the collective memory - it was written in the final report - the story of the Moby Prince ferry disaster evokes the fog and death in a few minutes of 140 passengers and crew members, killed by fire and smoke, betrayed by the distraction" of the crew "perhaps even for a football match. This representation is the result of twenty years of administrative and judicial proceedings".
The commission instead excluded that there was fog that evening - considered one of the causes of the collision - and excluded negligence on the part of the crew. Not only. The ferry - bound for Olbia - would have turned suddenly, without an explanation. Finally, the topic of rescue: survival times on board would have been quite long, "but - argued the president of the commission, Silvio Lai (Pd) - rescue operations were in fact absent against the Moby Prince". The new commission therefore has the objective of filling - also - these holes. "Every public act relating to the Moby Prince is available to the judiciary and the Parliament - said Romano - It is one more reason why the commitment of the institutions to the truth proceeds with absolute urgency".
