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Italy: Court keeps ship captain under house arrest

Oil recovery experts return to the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, after docking a barge to the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia, in the background, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. The barge will serve as a staging platform for the removal of the 500,000 gallons (1.9 million liters) of heavy fuel oil that are aboard the ship. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

An oil recovery expert wears a scuba diving equipment during preparations to work on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. The ship still contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

The grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia lies on its side, off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. The ship still contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

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The Associated Press 9:36 AM Tuesday, February 7, 2012

ROME — An Italian court has refused to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.

A court in Florence, in issuing its decision Tuesday, rejected a request from prosecutors to revoke house arrest and jail Schettino, and another from Schettino himself to be freed.

Schettino commanded the ship with 4,200 people that ran aground off the island of Giglio on Jan. 13.

He is being investigated for suspected manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all passengers were evacuated. Seventeen people are confirmed killed in the Jan. 13 shipwreck, with 15 more still missing.

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February 07, 2012 02:30 PM EST

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