NARRATIVE – The sinking of the 56-metre yacht in Sicily on 19 August, which cost the lives of seven people, remains incomprehensible. A look back at a maritime tragedy now in the hands of the Italian justice system.
London Correspondent
It was far too hot to sleep that night in the port of Porticello. So, until midnight, Matteo Cannia sat on a bench overlooking the sea. The 78-year-old, a fisherman since he was ten, saw the first flashes of lightning streak the heavy sky. “I heard the thunder and the wind getting stronger and decided to go homehe told a BBC reporter, but as the storm grew stronger, everyone woke up. Water was coming into my friend’s house.”.
Around four in the morning, on the night of August 18-19, another fisherman who was supposed to go out to sea but had changed his mind in the face of the fiery mood in the sky, saw a distress flare. Fabio Cefalu put his boat in the water and headed towards the place of the glow, a few hundred meters from the small Sicilian port. The surface was deserted, with only cushions and a few wooden planks floating. The luxury yacht Bayesian…
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