the passengers in French accuse the company of various faults or negligence, then, that several cases of Covid-19 were reported on the ship.
A group of passengers in French of the Costa Magica, a cruise ship which was seen to stem at the beginning of march of several ports in the Caribbean due to the coronavirus, filed Friday 180 complaints in Paris against the company, including for involuntary homicide.
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These complaints, including those of the families of three passengers who died in the Covid-19 according to the lawyer Philippe Courtois, accuse the company of various faults or negligence in the handling of the crisis on this ship where several cases of the disease were reported.
Lack information
From 6 to 13 march, in a loop at the start of the Guadeloupe, the boat and its 2303 passengers were denied landing in the most visited islands – Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, St Lucia – due to the pandemic.
the Lack of a stop, the crew would have then encouraged the passengers to go and check on the activities of the vessel (shops, spa, restaurants, casino) without compliance with adequate sanitary rules and without informing them of the suspicion of contamination on board, according to the testimony of the plaintiffs tending to support the complaint. These complaints have been filed for “homicide and involuntary injury”, “endanger the lives of others” and for “obstructing measures of assistance and omission to help”.
“The personnel on board have failed”
“The personnel on board have failed, passengers had virtually no more information on board and have been able to that by the local press that there were cases on the ship”, denounces Me as Courteous, in the name of the group that includes, according to him, some 850 passengers French.
“all The victims want to know how this cruise was able to be maintained when the vessel had already been denied in many ports, the previous week”, he adds, blaming the means “extremely light” put in place by the company : measures of body temperature is very random, hydroalcoholic gel in an insufficient quantity, etc
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“It had to be a dream cruise and it was finished at calvary, to wander on the boat,” says-t it. Costa Cruises, brand of the world number one in the sector Carnival, postponed until August 15 its cruises in the world due to the epidemic of Covid-19.
