passengers in France accuse the company of various mistakes or negligence, then, that several cases of Covid-19 were reported on board. A group of travelers
passengers in France accuse the company of various mistakes or negligence, then, that several cases of Covid-19 were reported on board.
A group of passengers on France’s Costa Magica, a cruise ship seen at the start of a march to several Caribbean ports due to the coronavirus, filed 180 complaints in Paris on Friday against the company, including one for manslaughter.
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These complaints, including those of the families of three passengers who died of Covid-19 according to lawyer Philippe Courtois, accuse the company of various mistakes or negligence in handling the crisis on this ship where several cases of the disease have been reported. .
Lack of information
From March 6 to 13, in the loop at the beginning of Guadeloupe, the ship and its 2,303 passengers could not dock at the most visited islands – Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Lucia due to the pandemic.
In the absence of a stop, the crew would then encourage the passengers to go and check out the activities on the vessel (shops, spas, restaurants, casinos) without following proper sanitary rules and without notifying of suspected contamination on board. , according to the prosecutor’s testimony, trying to support the lawsuit. Applications were filed for “murder and involuntary injuries”, “endangering the lives of others” and “obstructing aid measures and failure to provide aid”.
“The ship’s staff has failed”
“The staff on board failed, the passengers had practically no more information on board and were able to find out from the local press that there were cases on board,” he condemns me politely, on behalf of a group that includes, according to him, some 850 French passengers .
“all the victims want to know how this cruise could have taken place when the ship had already been rejected in many ports, the previous week,” he adds, blaming the “extremely light” means introduced by the company: body temperature measurements are very random, hydroalcoholic gel in insufficient quantity etc
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“It must have been a dream cruise and it ended in Calvary, wandering on a ship,” he says. Costa Cruises, the world’s number one brand in the carnival sector, has postponed until August 15 its cruises around the world due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
Updated date: August 10, 2020, 7:58 p.m
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