First French trial against Somali pirates opens in Paris
The first trial in France against Somali pirates opened on Tuesday morning, with six men accused of kidnapping a French couple aboard their yacht in 2008.
The trial in a Paris juveniles court began behind closed doors as one of the six accused was under 18 when arrested off the Somali coast three years ago.
The group is accused of storming the Carré d'As yacht on September 2, 2008 and taking hostage Jean-Yves Delanne and his wife Bernadette – two experienced skippers who were sailing from Australia to France.
The pirates had asked for a $2 million ransom, but were captured by French special forces in the night of September 15 in an operation that ended in the death of one pirate.
The seizure of the Carré d'As came just five months after the first such pirate attack on a French vessel – the 288-foot luxury yacht Le Ponant, whose 30 hostages were held for a week before French commandos seized pirates and part of their ransom cash in a daring helicopter raid on Somali soil.
Six men held in the raid are due to be tried next May but their lawyers have taken the case to the European Court of Human Rights on grounds they were arrested on foreign soil.
The threat from piracy became the subject of national debate in France in April 2009, when French commandos stormed another yacht, Le Tanit, and the captain, whose three-year old son was on board died during the operation, possibly mistakenly shot by the commandos.
France currently holds 22 alleged pirates awaiting trial.
Source: The Telegraph
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