Mittwoch, 30. November 2011

Ruling awaited in French trial of Somali "pirates"

Paris - A French jury was due to rule Wednesday on the fate of six suspected Somali pirates, who were put on trial in Paris on charges of taking a French couple hostage aboard their yacht in 2008.
Jean-Yves and Bernadette Delanne, both aged 62, were intercepted off the coast of Somalia as they were sailing from Australia to France in September 2008.
After two weeks French special forces stormed the yacht and freed the couple, killing one suspected pirate in the operation.
Six others,

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