2023-08-05 22:22:53
He would have carried out an “almost kamikaze” maneuver. Italian police are investigating an accident between a small motorboat and a yacht with 70 people on board, off Italy’s Amalfi Coast, which killed a woman and injured several people, prosecutors said on Saturday.
According to the captain of the yacht, the pilot of the motorboat veered off and sped towards the yacht, hitting it at a place where Adrienne Vaughan, 45, director of Bloomsbury – the American publishing house of Harry Potter – was taking the lead. sunshine with her husband and two children.
Adrienne Vaughan was thrown overboard, along with her 12-year-old daughter. She died, while the child escaped unharmed. Adrienne Vaughan’s husband was also injured and hospitalized, as was the pilot of the small boat, who has several broken ribs.
An investigation opened for “manslaughter”
At the hospital, the latter was tested to see if he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but the results “are not necessarily significant”, Giuseppe told a press conference. Borrelli, chief prosecutor of the Salerno region, refusing to confirm the assertions of certain local media speaking of traces of cocaine in the blood. An investigation has been opened for “manslaughter” and “attempt to cause a shipwreck”, he added.
The investigators questioned the approximately 70 people present on board this rental yacht, he further indicated, without however confirming the information given by the Italian media according to which the yacht had been rented for a wedding, with in particular guests Americans and Germans.
In a newspaper interview The Republic, the yacht’s captain, Tony Gallo, said the small boat had “suddenly, inexplicably, performed an almost kamikaze maneuver”. “It was coming from the opposite direction and suddenly it turned at a right angle, diving under my bow. »
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