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Giglio seeking €200 million for damage to its image by the Costa Concordia disasterThe island of Giglio, its inhabitants, the Italian government and Costa Concordia cruise ship passengers are banding together to request hundreds of millions of euros in damages from Costa Cruises this week, as the trial of the 2012 cruise ship disaster nears its climax.Prosecutors have requested a 26-year prison sentence for Captain Francesco Schettino, who abandoned the cruise ship after it hit a reef doing a sail-by of the Mediterranean island of Giglio. Thirty-two people died as the ship tilted into the sea and filled with water.
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