Domnica Cemortan: Was Costa Concordia captain Francesco

Schettino trying to impress ballerina?

Passenger is Domnica Cemortan, 25, coming from Moldova
Prosecutors believe your woman could have crucial evidence as to what happened
Witnesses observed Captain Schettino dining along with the woman's minutes prior to crash
New recording reveals crew informed coastguard there was absolutely no emergency11 folks
confirmed dead and 30 nonetheless lacking after disasterInvestigators probing whether as well as
not concern with 25million compensation bill ended up being to blame for hour delay throughout
abandoning ship
ByRebecca Evans for that Every Day Mailand Arthur Martin for that Day-to-day Mail
Updated: 10:54 GMT, twenty January 2012
Italian police are usually seeking a new ballerina they believe may shed light about the Costa
Concordia disaster.
Domnica Cemortan had been seen cavorting using Captain Francesco Schettino in the minutes just
before his cruise liner foundered about rocks.

Italian authorities believe 52-year-old

Schettino dubbed Captain Coward might
happen to end up being able to be distracted
via his command by trying to impress the
dancer.
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Captain's lover: Moldovan Domnica Cemortan (left), 25, told the court these days the girl ended up
being Captain Francesco Schettino's lover

Proud: Domnica Cemortan (centre), as a possible employee with the cruise ship industry, proudly
exhibits off the woman's document associated with proficiency throughout maritime safety
Schettino had been seen 'drinking' with supper within the organization involving Ms Cemortan in
regarding 8.35pm on Friday evening. The Actual picture involving her around the proper has been
taken on the bridge in the Concordia

The Moldovan dancer admitted she had been Captain

Francesco Schettino's lover and boarded your Costa Concordia without having a new ticket
They think about your 25-year-old Moldovan blonde to be a key witness.
Eleven individuals are dead along with 30 missing following the 400million ship found grief on a
rocky outcrop off the particular Tuscan isle involving Giglio.
It was carrying 4,200 passengers.
Miss Cemortan, which includes a two-year-old daughter, had labored as being a translator for that
Concordia but has been on holiday around the ship at the period of Friday nights disaster.
A grainy photograph has been taken involving your ex around the bridge.
It can be believed the girl may be able to shed mild on Schettinos selection in order to sail near to
Giglio to do the salute to get a former crew member as well as for that ships head waiter.
Miss Cemortan and also Schettino had been seen wining and also dining together 30 minutes ahead
regarding the disaster.
One passenger, Angelo Fabri, said: the captain had been inside a darkish jacket and the man had
been sat in front of the girl your woman was very younger as well as at first I believed it might are
already his daughter.
She has been slim, had blonde locks to be able to the woman's shoulders and ended up being
wearing a black dress using your ex arms uncovered. These People were laughing plus substantial
spirits.
He stated the particular captain was drinking wine any claim that contradicts Schettinos assertion
he stayed off alcohol.
A supply pertaining to operator Costa Cruises said: the woman who appears to have dined along
with Schettino was a Costa employee whom have been hired in order to assist Russian passengers.
WAS 25M COMPENSATION BILL TO BLAME FOR HOUR DELAY IN ABANDONING SHIP?
Investigators are probing if the fear of paying a new 25million compensation bill would happen to
end up being able to be to blame for the hour delay throughout telling the particular Costa
Concordia's 3,000 passengers in order to abandon ship.
Every one of the particular vessel's passengers is within collection to obtain 8,300 - or perhaps
10,000 - payout when an order is manufactured to abandon ship.
With therefore many passengers on board the actual operators Costa Cruises could have faced a
mammoth payout.
Officials probing the particular disaster tend to be believed to be probing whether the concern with
compensation was to blame for that delay, the Occasions reported.

11 passengers happen to become able to be confirmed dead as well as 21 individuals are injured.
She had been due to end up being able to disembark in the Costa Concordia just before it began its
seven-day cruise in the Mediterranean yet she purchased a ticket and also stayed onboard.
We can not confirm as well as deny she was around the bridge. to be honest, nobody fairly
understands what Schettino ended up being up to.
In interviews using Moldovan newspaper Adevarul, Miss Cemortan admitted being around the
bridge about Friday evening and also extra that he (Schettino) was there.
Italian newspapers yesterday claimed Schettino has admitted becoming using Miss Cemortan in the
time and that they had certainly not been on the official passenger manifest.
Her mother Vera, which lives together with the woman's in the Moldovan richesse Chisinau, stated
the seven-day cruise was obviously a birthday present.
Yesterday Miss Cemortan defended Schettino: I realize that a couple of of my colleagues ought to
always be able to be upset since they're unemployed now plus they get debts and possess kids
waiting on his or her behalf yet we're just about all within agreement that the captain does one thing
exceptional and also saved 3,000 lives.

Training: Cermortan stated she was just around the bridge in order to translate instructions with
regard to Russian passengers

Miss
Cemortan (left) advised the actual Italian court that she boarded as getting a non-paying passenger
hrs before the crash

Miss

Cemortan tried to dodge your query involving whether the girl had been romantically concerned
together Web Based Training with captain Francesco Schettino, in assistance of responded
positively following getting advised your woman risked criminal fees pertaining to refusing for you to
reply
Accused regarding cowardice: Captain Francesco Schettino. Right, Ms Cemortan with a fellow crew
member

Divers
swim through Costa Concordia's bell off your coast regarding Giglio

Rescue: Firefighters climb up a new ladder about for the Costa Concordia because it lies on its
aspect off the particular island involving Giglio, Tuscany

Race
against time: A New technician aims a laser scanner in the cruise liner. There are fears impending
poor weather could trigger the particular ship for you to fall off the particular ledge on which usually
it's resting
Damning transcripts of a telephone call between Schettino plus a coastguard possess since emerged

revealing his refusal to go back to the listing ship to assist co-ordinate your rescue of countless
stranded passengers.
Schettino says he deserted your vessel simply as they tripped as well as fell into a lifeboat.
A transcript launched yesterday shows that even 45 minutes after striking rocks Schettino had been
telling coastguards the only aid he necessary was obviously a tug.
He is below home arrest upon suspicion associated with multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship as
well as causing shipwreck. In the particular event that convicted, he faces fifteen years in jail.

Impact: The satellite image exhibits the stricken cruise liner about its side inside shallow water
He will be barred through leaving the 175,000 apartment he shares with his wife Fabiola and 15year-old daughter Rossella in the coastal enclave of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples.
Yesterday, inside a display associated with local support, a new banner was set up outside his house
saying: Captain, dont give up.
Costa said it had suspended Schettino and also launched civil action pertaining to significant
misbehaviour.
It said he was not receiving virtually any support or even legal aid from the company.

Operation: Firefighters journey past the vast cruise liner

Despair: Relatives as well as friends regarding victims with the cruise liner disaster arrive at Giglio
Porto
Divers resumed their particular search with the Concordia yesterday next a delay caused by the ship
shifting position.

Susy Albertini, whose five-year-old daughter Dayana is actually missing, begged them to bring on.
Bring your ex house if you may well ask me as soon as you can, the lady said.
Dayana had been on holiday with the girl father, William Arlotti, 36, that is also missing.
Preparations are generally below approach to eliminate the 2,200 tons involving heavy duty diesel
inside the ships tanks an operation expected to consider the month.
Experts say sealife will be devastated had been your oil to be able to leak.

Vigil:
Loved Ones along with pals regarding Jerry as well as Barbara Heil, the simply real Americans
nevertheless unaccounted for on the Costa Concordia, attend any prayer service throughout White
Bear Lake, Minnesota
Listen for an audio recording of the crew member reassuring passengers it will be just about all
totally OK, despite the actual ship taking upon water.
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