The portal reminds that the disaster happened five years ago and had two Hungarian victims, the captain and the sailor of the ship, with 25 South Korean tourists killed. One victim has still not been found.

In May 2019, the tourist ship Hableány was sunk by the hotel ship Viking Sigyn, with 35 people on board. The accident killed 27 people and one South Korean passenger is still missing.

Viking Sigyn‘s captain, Yuri C., has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison and banned from driving for six years.

The captain of the Viking Sigyn‘s sister ship, the Viking Idun (sailing in the close proximity of the Viking Sigyn), Topal F., continues to plead not guilty to a charge of “failure to assist,” claiming that although the two ships were almost side by side, he did not see the tragedy occur.

After the disaster, Hableány could not be recovered for two weeks due to the high water level of the Danube.

The special maneuver began on June 11, 2019, when four bodies were recovered from the ship’s hull by 9 a.m., including the captain, a six-year-old South Korean girl and her mother.

The wreck was first transported to Csepel (21st District of Budapest), then later to Újpest (4th District of Budapest), where wreck hunters stole several relics from the ship, and although it was clear at the time of recovery that the body was unsalvageable, with a huge rip in the side of the ship, it was thought that the bow could still be used as a memorial.

The company that owned the wreck, however, got tired of paying storage fees – roughly HUF 3,000-4,000 (EUR 7.61-10.15) a month – and dismantled the ship.

An employee close to the company told the portal that the Hableány had been melted down.

In February this year, the verdict in the Hableány disaster compensation case has been reached, with the court awarding HUF 1.8 billion (EUR 4.5 million) out of the HUF 4.3 billion (EUR 10.9 million) total claims submitted.

There is a wide variation in compensation, with amounts ranging from HUF 5 million to HUF 80 million (EUR 12,700 – 203,202).

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