Ex-commander Schettino renounces semi-release in Costa Concordia case

The former commander of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, has waived the application he had submitted to request semi-freedom from work. In the middle is also the change of lawyer.

On 8 April 2025, before the Rome Supervisory Court, Schettino, who had been sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for the shipwreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, where 32 people died on the night between 12 and 13 January 2012, off the island of Giglio, waived his petition and the judges declared that there was no need to proceed.

"This morning we gave up the request for semi-freedom because there were difficulties with the work proposal that had been submitted to the Rome Supervisory Court. The proceedings were closed, the court pronounced with the non-suit'.

This was reported by lawyer Francesca Carnicelli, the new defender of Schettino, convicted in 2017 definitively to 16 years in prison.

''The waiver was made by Schettino, the decision to close these proceedings came from him,'' the criminal lawyer explained, ''because the conditions were no longer there. In the future, if there are the conditions to propose the request again, we will do it again''. In fact, the former commander has accrued the term that allows him to access alternative measures to prison, having already served half of his sentence. Schettino is currently eligible for furloughs.