Mais un seul accident suffirait, si un bateau ni français, ni italien, chargé d’une cargaison dangereuse venait à y faire naufrage, comme par exemple l’Erika (pavillon maltais) ou le Prestige (pavillon des Bahamas).
But an accident involving a vessel which was neither French nor Italian, but was sailing under another country's flag and transporting hazardous goods, could cause a disaster on the scale of the sinking of the Erika (flying the Maltese flag) or the Prestige (sailing under the flag of the Bahamas).