The victims of the sinking of a Panamanian ship can ask the Italian courts to convict the Italian bodies that classified and certified the ship, concluded the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU, Maciej Szpunar, on Tuesday 14 January (Case C-641/18).
The case dates back to 2013, when the court in Genoa, Italy, was heard by the families of victims and survivors of the sinking of the vessel Al-Salam Boccaccio 98, sailing under the Panamanian flag.
The complainants seek the...