Twelve pirates transferred to Mauritius (Update)
(BRUXELLES2) We wrote it a few days ago. This is now officially confirmed by a press release from Eunavfor Atalanta HQ. The 12 pirates arrested together by the American ship USS Halyburton (Ocean Shield / NATO) and the French frigate Surcouf (Eunavfor Atalanta / EU) at the beginning of January were indeed transferred to the judicial authorities of Mauritius this Friday (January 25). They will be judged on the island by a special court. And they can then be transferred to serve their sentence to Puntland.
Dressed in black, the twelve suspects arrived at Plaisance airport, aboard a Dornier aircraft specially chartered for the occasion (registered 5Y – BRX), from Djibouti, according to the daily l'Express de Maurice. After completing administrative procedures, they were loaded into the armored trucks of the Mauritian police, around 20:30 p.m. and placed in detention in the cells of Alcatraz, at the Central Barracks.
This is the first time that the island in the Indian Ocean has welcomed suspects of piracy for the purpose of prosecuting them in court. The result of an agreement signed between Mauritius and the European Union over a year ago (July 2011). The American soldiers had left their French counterparts to ensure the arrest of the suspects in order to be able to guarantee the continuations.
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