The latest piracy case tried in the Seychelles
(BRUSSELS2) In what is the latest piracy case to be tried in Seychelles, a court in Port Victoria on Friday (10 June) sentenced five Somalis to 12 years in prison. The trial, which lasted more than two years, failed to hear from the Indians who were on board the dhow captured by the pirates, according to Seychelles news who comments on the information.
The five pirates had been arrested by the French Navy on January 18, 2014, by the TCD Siroco, which was then the flagship of the European anti-piracy operation Atalanta very far from the Seychelles, near the Yemeni and Oman coasts, after the attack the day before against the tanker Nave Atropos flying the flag of the Mashall Islands using the Indian dhow as a mothership (read: Arrest of 5 pirates in the Gulf of Aden).
After having searched in vain for a country capable of bringing the pirates to justice, the French navy had finally found a favorable reception in the Seychelles. They were thus landed on January 30, 2014 in the archipelago and handed over to the Seychelles authorities (read: Pirates handed over to Seychelles).
Over the past six years, Seychelles has investigated nearly 20 piracy cases, convicting over a hundred pirates. Several of them have either been released or sent back to Somalia to serve out their sentences. 22 Somalis were still incarcerated in the Montagne prison set up in March, according to the Seychellois online daily.
(NGV)
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