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Tribal Kat: the Indian tactics of Galicia. Touched flowed

(BRUSSELS2 - exclusive) The arrest of a pirate skiff involved in the attack on the sailing ship Tribal Kat and the release of Frenchwoman E. Colombo did not quite go as the official story - from the Spanish, French navies and European - presented it. Or to be more exact, the order of the actions operated has been eclipsed a bit. It would thus seem that the Spaniards of Galicia have used an offensive method, quite direct against the pirates. They thus have drawn on the pirate skiff and sank it, forcing the pirates to jump into the water and swim ". Then all that was left to do was pick everyone up. An operation which is not without risk, recognizes our very official interlocutor.

Indian tactics

This method of "hit, sink, recover, capture" (sunk and catch) has already been used on several occasions by the Indian Navy off its coasts - to the point that we could speak of Indian tactics - to neutralize, often successfully but sometimes not without loss of life, several mother ships used by pirates . It now appears to be endorsed by the Spanish and French navies (the Spanish assault on the pirate skiff did indeed occur with French authorization).

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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