The results of yesterday's expert assessment of the 17-metre yacht on which Giovanni Marchionni, the twenty-one-year-old from Bacoli (metropolitan city of Naples) who died on 8 August in Portisco, Olbia , are being scrutinised by the defence of the vessel's ownership.
The examination ordered by the Tempio Pausania Public Prosecutor's Office on board the vessel reportedly found concentrations of carbon monoxide fumes coming from one of the vessel's power batteries .
"The batteries did not present any critical issues," Giampaolo Murrighile , one of the two lawyers appointed by the owner of the pleasure boat, explained to ANSA, "and the carbon monoxide found in the cabin occupied by the boy is below any harmful threshold . In any case, the defense consultant assures that the autopsy report excludes the attribution of death to carbon monoxide inhalation." Yesterday, during the inspection , the investigators' experts and those appointed by the Marchionni family and the owner of the boat carried out the tests with the engines running and the air conditioning system active .
The panel of experts appointed by Tempio Pausania's prosecutor, Gregorio Capasso, and his deputy Milena Aucone, focused their attention on the batteries installed near the bow , closest to the cabin where the young man's body was found. The case is currently pending against unknown persons, but further developments are possible in the coming days.
(Unioneonline)