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ianstone
06-11-2010, 04:51 PM
Trials of ten Somali pirates in Germany


http://wscdn.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/06/11/100611163604_convoya226.jpg Arrested ten suspects were deported to Germany


Waiting for years, suspected Somali pirates who have been deported from the Netherlands, the trial in the port of Hamburg.
The handover took place on the German-Dutch border on Thursday.
He had been arrested ten suspects, including a junior man, by the Dutch naval forces after an attack on the German cargo ship, Taipan, off the Somali coast in April.
It is expected that the prosecutor general charged with kidnapping to Somalis ten. The media said Germany that the trial will be the first in Germany to persons suspected Somali pirates.
A judge in Amsterdam has issued a ruling that, while the Netherlands has the right to prosecute the men suspects, but this is not a sufficient reason to refuse extradition to Germany.
Defense lawyers said that he was registered ship which was attacked in the Bahamas and not in Germany.
He had been brought under control on the ship, about 900 km east of the coast of Somalia last April.
The Dutch Navy frigate Tromp, patrols in the water as part of the process of European anti-piracy, and then responded to a distress call was issued for the ship Taipan