The findings of yesterday’s technical investigation into the 17-meter yacht where 21-year-old Giovanni Marchionni of Bacoli (Metropolitan City of Naples) died last August 8th in Portisco, Olbia, are being challenged by the defense team for the vessel’s owners. The examination, ordered by the Tempio Pausania Prosecutor’s Office, was reported to have detected concentrations of carbon monoxide emissions originating from one of the boat’s power supply batteries.
“The batteries did not present any kind of critical issue,” explained Giampaolo Murrighile, one of two lawyers appointed by the pleasure craft’s ownership, to ANSA. “And the carbon monoxide found in the cabin occupied by the young man is below every threshold of harmfulness. In any case, the defense’s consultant assures that the autopsy report excludes the death being attributable to carbon monoxide inhalation.”
During yesterday’s inspection, experts for the prosecutors, the Marchionni family, and the boat’s owner conducted tests with the engines running and the air conditioning system active. The team of experts appointed by Tempio Pausania Prosecutor Gregorio Capasso and Deputy Prosecutor Milena Aucone focused their attention on the batteries installed near the bow, closest to the cabin where the young man’s body was discovered.
For now, the official investigation remains filed against unknown persons, but developments are not ruled out in the coming days.