Moby Prince, yellow on explosives on board: the prosecutor of Florence calls the super-expert Cups

The geominer and explosives expert Danilo Coppe, former consultant to the Court of Assizes of Bologna at the last trial for the massacre at the station, one of the experts appointed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office to shed light on the Moby Prince disaster in the which, just over 30 years ago, on the night of April 10, 1991, in front of the coasts of the port of Livorno, 140 people between passengers and crew died and there was only one survivor. The Prosecutor’s Office of Florence, which with the DDA reopened the investigation – followed by the deputy prosecutor Gabriele Mazzotta – assigned Coppe 90 days to answer the questions assigned, in particular whether there are new elements supporting the thesis of the presence of explosives on the Moby Prince putting in order all the appraisals made so far.Coppe will have to examine, on behalf of the Florentine magistrates, all the work done so far by the various consultants that have followed one another in these 30 years. But since there are still several finds kept by the Livorno magistracy, the geominer who, among other things, was commissioned to demolish the section of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa with explosives, will be able to examine those remains or look for others. Talking about the presence of explosives on board the Moby Prince was in 1992, a year after the disaster, a report by the Scientific Police according to which “traces of civilian explosives were found, found inside a room in the bow of the ship, where probably a few moments before the collision, a deflagration occurred “. According to the experts of the forensics who transmitted the document to the then Minister of the Interior, on board the Moby Prince there were 5 types of civil explosives, four of which were of high potential, and two of a military type. “The analytical data obtained with the different techniques – wrote the Scientific Police in the document sent to the Interior Ministry – have made it possible to identify the following compounds: the first five are typical of explosive compositions for civil use, referred to as jellies-dynamites, while the other two are present mainly in military explosives and in demolition plastics (Semtex). It has been ascertained that the substances identified, with the sole exception of ammonium nitrate, are all high potential explosives, both individually and in a mixture “. Now Danilo Coppe, the new explosives expert appointed by the Prosecutor’s Office of Florence, will have to verify, with new instruments and technologies, if the circumstance really has its foundation. no questioning previous court reports relating to explosives – it happened recently precisely for the massacre in Bologna and even earlier for the massacre of the Loggia in Brescia – also due to the fact that the instruments used in past years were often poorly calibrated and gave rise to In the meantime, the new Commission of Inquiry into the Moby Prince disaster, established in May, acquired a radio communications tape, never listened to until today because the specific recorder no longer in production and now purchased by the parliamentary body was missing. capable of reading and decrypting that type of tape.