Exit permits for Girona and Latorre
(BRUSSELS2) Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, the two Italian soldiers detained in India after being charged with the murder last February of fishermen whom they had taken for pirates while guarding the tanker MV Enrica Lexie, were able to return home for the holidays.
An exit permit that has been duly negotiated by the Italian authorities. The Italian Foreign Minister, Giulio Terzi, had to provide a "letter of guarantee" to his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, in which he committed " personally so that the soldiers then return to India, to Kochi, where they are under house arrest while their trial takes place. The Italians also provided a bank guarantee of 6 million rupees (about 82.000 euros). The leave ends on January 10 and they must present their passports to the court by that date, reports the daily "Times of India". (NGV)