After one year of the disappearance of 21 year old crewmember Laish Santiago dos Santos, on a cruise ship in Italy, her family is still waiting for answers. The case remains open, but there is no progress in the investigation. The body was never found and the relatives even have a death certificate. The uncertainty makes the family thinks the possibility of her still being alive.
Laish was crew member of the cruise ship Costa Magica and disappeared on the evening of June 1, 2012. On the 4th of June, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that video cameras recorded the Brazilian girl jumping from the ship during the morning of day 2 of the cruise. The young man was in the second season of work on the passenger ship. According to the family, she had decided to break the contract and should return home that month.
The godmother of young Vania Lima do Nascimento, still keeps the dolls of Laish, with the hope that one day she'll come back. "At 21, she was still a girl, she loved playing with dolls, made up the clothes. I've tried, but I can not dispose of them. In my heart there is still hope. And if she's alive? Believe that mother and brother also think so. Jorge Save The novel is an example of this and was very strong for us this time. exists a mystery, so we do not know if she is somewhere. We have the right to think that because we do not have the right to think otherwise. We have to look for answers, or even fantasies, to ease our pain, ".
According to the Italian media released at the time, the ship had left Malta towards Catania, and was about 30 miles from Sicilian coast when Laish disappeared.
The brother of the crew, Lucas Santiago, says that Infinity Brazil, the company responsible for the recruitment of young woman, called when the accident occurred. "They told that on the day of the incident, she usually worked in the morning but never showed up for the night shift. They searched the entire ship, but have not found her," he says.
According to him, the Brazilian girl loved working on the ship, but had been complaining a lot lately. "The Lais would resign and return to Brazil. She loved working on ship, but she was tired," he explains. The young woman was hired as an assistant waiter on the Costa Magica.
