The captain of a cruise boat that collided with another vessel in Budapest in 2019, killing at least 27 people, has been found guilty of negligence.
The captain of a river cruise boat that collided with another vessel on the Danube River in 2019,, was found guilty Tuesday of negligence leading to a fatal mass catastrophe and sentenced to five years in prison.
Judge Leona Nemeth in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, found that the negligence of the Ukrainian captain, Yuriy Chaplinsky, had caused his boat, the Viking Sigyn, to run into the tourist boat Hableany from behind. The latterThe court acquitted Chaplinsky of 35 counts of failure to render aid. He may appeal.The collision occurred May 29, 2019, causing the Hableany to sink after being struck beneath Budapest’s Margit Bridge by the much larger Viking Sigyn.
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