Somali pirates forerunners of the arms embargo? :-)
(BRUSSELS2) Were Somali pirates among the first to have imposed an arms embargo for the Libyan leader who was known to fuel various rebellions around the world? We could almost believe it if we remember the affair of the Mv RIM. This Libyan ship flying the North Korean flag was boarded by pirates in February 2010. But according to what the NGO Ecoterra suggests, it was transporting weapons to Yemen, via Eritrea. Coincidentally, the (Syrian) crew of the Mv Rim had succeeded during “of a brawl between pirates” to free themselves, all alone at the beginning of June 2010… (with a member of the crew seriously injured all the same) before being rescued by ships from Eunavfor, the European anti-piracy force (the Spanish SPS Victoria then the Dutchman Johan de Witt)
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