Las claves de la catástrofe del ‘Prestige’
Cómo se hundió el buque petrolero, los pasos de la investigación y la demora en el juicio
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El País Santiago de Compostela 13 NOV 2013 - 11:31 CET
The keys to disaster 'Prestige'
How the oil tanker, the steps of the investigation and the delay in the trial sank
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The Country Santiago de Compostela 13 NOV 2013 - 11:31 CET
The judgment of the catastrophe ' Prestige ' has arrived punctually on the eleventh anniversary of the tanker left its noxious cargo into the waters of Galicia and bestow the tar by the Cantabrian and Atlantic coast. These are the keys to the greatest environmental tragedy in Spain .
the facts
The tanker Prestige , loaded with a monocoque 77,033 tons of fuel oil, the flag of Bahamas, sailed in November 2009 off the Galician coast . Came from St. Petersburg (Russia ) and headed for Gibraltar , surrounding the peninsula. But a storm puts you in trouble a few miles of the Costa de la Morte . The ship launches the alarm signal has broken one of the tanks .
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Two helicopters come and evacuate 24 of the 27 crew. Aboard remain captain, Apostolos Mangouras Greek , who was arrested and later released after being deposited a bond of three million euros , and the first officer and chief engineer . The ship ends up split in two and is towed away after the accident on the Galician coast .
But the detached oil slick reaches the coast of Galicia , which were flooded with fuel oil. Also hurt , although to a lesser extent , to other areas of the coast of Spain and France. For months, hordes of volunteers from all over Spain in addition to local sailors with their hands trying to fend off the tar and military shipped late to mitigate the disaster.
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The Court Corcubión , small and almost without means , conducted a long, complex and tangled investigation. In July 2010 he opened the trial phase of the proceedings by the ecological disaster that caused the tanker Prestige . In the order of the Court , its owner , Carmen Scallops, delimited object crimes indictment , direct and jointly and severally liable , and demanded a deposit of 1,200 million euros as a precautionary measure to defendants and by extension the civil authorities .
On the bench
Four people were sitting on the dock , but the weight of the charges falling on the old tanker captain , Apostolos Mangouras , 76, who is asking for 12 years in prison for crimes against the environment and natural resource damages and for disobedience. In addition , where appropriate , shall pay a fine of 43,200 euros and, together with the insurance of the ship , The London P & I, a compensation of 2233.76 million to compensate for damages. Although the figure is quite likely that everything is already a record increase when the trial starts, because in that calculation did not include the Attorney long-term effects that could cause environmental catastrophe.
Also judges who was the general manager of the Merchant Marine , Jose Luis Lopez Sors (the only representative of iputado State) by " evidence of criminality serious negligence " , according to prosecutors , in the erratic course that imposed the oil that for six days was losing thousands of tonnes of fuel .
Likewise, the court shall decide on the chief engineer , Nikolaos Argyropoulos , which was located a few months ago at his home in Greece, after years in hiding , like the last defendant , the first officer of Prestige , the Philippine Irenaeus Maloto . Both are charged with the same crimes as the captain.
On liability for the accident , the judge will decide on the insurance The London Steam -Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association Limited and the International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution ( IOPC ) , and jointly and severally liable as the Mare entities Shipping Inc , Universe Maritime LTD and the Spanish State.
Macro trial in four languages
At the hearing made themselves parties 2,090 plus 2,300 injured by the civil claim. This gives the magnitude of the trial in the Court of A Coruña. In addition to the prosecution and the State Bar , has involved more than 70 lawyers, lawyers of the Xunta and the provincial Provincial Council . And the French government eight municipalities Gauls themselves known .
During the trial were numerous witnesses called to testify , many residents in other countries, in a trial in four languages ( Castilian , French , English and Greek). So part of the interrogations were conducted through video conferencing to cut costs .
Allowances
Those affected are demanding compensation of more than 1,200 million euros , of which over 1,000 million relate to individuals, organizations and businesses harmed in the coast of Galicia , Asturias , Cantabria and the Basque Country , and Spanish autonomous communities and the state, and more than 200 million requests for courses taken by France .
11 years of delay
The judgment of the biggest ecological disaster in Spain will culminate in its eleventh anniversary . The delay has multiple causes : a slow and convoluted investigation, the unexpected location in the summer of 2009 the chief engineer was missing , sending letters rogatory " by getting civil responsibilities " to Greece , country of owner of Prestige , and Britain, where your insurer , and blocking justice in Galicia by the tens of thousands of pending cases , are some of these reasons.
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