By Eleanor Biles GIGLIO Italy (Reuters) - Technicians on Monday began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. "Our hope is not 100 percent but 300 percent that everything goes well and they manage to take this away, that they remove this testimony to human weakness as quickly as possible," said island resident Antonio Bellardo. After the ship has been raised about two meters, later on Monday it will be further stabilized with chains and cables, and tug boats will move it about 30 meters into the harbor, where it will be prepared to be towed within days to Genoa in northern Italy, to be scrapped. The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck as he sailed too close to shore to "salute" the port, and abandoning ship.
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