Italy shipwreck captain tests negative for drugs
FirstpostThe results showed Schettino had consumed neither alcohol nor drugs, according to details of the tests released by consumers’ association Codacons, which has presented a class action suit against the ship’s owners. Rome: The captain of the cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast last month has tested negative for drug and alcohol abuse, his lawyers and a consumers’ body said, though the consumer group representing passengers said the findings were unreliable. Codacons, whose own experts were present at the tests, said the results were unreliable as they had also failed to show signs of tranquilizers that Schettino himself had said he was taking before the accident. However they did not find any signs of breakdown products of cocaine inside Schettino’s hair follicles - the products that would usually show up inside the hair of someone who had actually used cocaine.
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