A woman who aborted after the wreck of the Concordia seeks one million euros

A 30 year-old pregnant five months travelling on the cruise ship Costa Concordia and lost her baby days after the vessel naufragara on 13 January in the waters of the Italian of the Giglio island will ask an indemnity of one million euros.

Doctors indicated the girl, Christina M, of Italian nationality, that the loss was attributable to the psycho-physical stress accumulated during the wreck, the Italian media reported yesterday.

Girl lawyers have decided to join the collective demand that passengers aboard Costa Concordia cannot join and demand a compensation of one million euros for moral and physical damages.

At the end of January, the shipping company Costa Cruises, owner of the rugged vessel, announced that it will pay 14,000 euros ($18,400) for each passenger, including children, on Board of the Concord.

This is the u000aAccording to the Italian shipping company and the Committee of castaways of the Costa Concordia, formed, among others, by several Italian consumer associations which arrived.

However, the Italian consumers Association Codacons invited passengers not to accept this offer, which he considered a "handout".

Codacons announced on their website to begin a legal collective action to seek a compensation of 125,000 euros for each passenger to Costa Cruises from Miami, in collaboration with two US firms,.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia, carrying 4.229 people, of which 3,209 passengers, ran aground off the coast of the island of Giglio Island, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the night of January 13.

Fatal victims of the wreck are, for the moment, 17, including two Peruvians, while 15 people are still missing and a Spanish.

The shipping company admitted that the wreck occurred later in that the captain of the Cruiser, u000aFrancesco Schettino, currently under house arrest, decide, without authorization, to approach the coast of the island and this manoeuvre struck a stumbling block, causing rupture of the hull and the consequent embarkation of water.

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