Italy launches manslaughter investigation after tycoon Mike Lynch’s yacht capsizes

The Italian prosecutor’s office in Sicily announced this Saturday (August 24, 2024) that a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, killing seven people, including seven, may be suspected of negligent wreck and manslaughter. British billionaire Mike Lynch.

he Super Bayes, Last Monday, the Union Jack sank in a matter of minutes about 700 meters from the port of Porticello near Palermo due to the passage of a waterspout caused by the cold drop phenomenon.

However, the investigation is still in its initial stages, as the last body, that of the tech mogul’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah Lynch, was not recovered from the sea until Friday. “At this stage, precisely because the investigation could develop in one direction or another, we do not exclude anything at all,” the Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office said.

Lynch, 59, invited friends He and his family came aboard to celebrate his recent acquittal in a massive fraud case in the United States.

Fifteen people were rescued, and the body of a man was found shortly afterwards, identified on Saturday as the ship’s cook. A massive search operation by professional divers found the bodies of four of Lynch’s friends on Wednesday, and Lynch’s body on Thursday.

How fast a sailboat sinks The fact that other ships around her were not affected raises questions, particularly as to whether the ballast keel, which serves as counterweight to the 75-meter-long mast, was lowered or raised during the storm.