Paris: Seven Somali men go on trial over fatal yacht hijacking



PARIS: -- Seven Somali men have gone before a court in Paris, accused of hijacking a French yacht in the Arabian Sea four years ago.

Owner Christian Colombo was killed and his wife abducted in the assault – she was later rescued by Spanish naval forces.

The trial is set to last two weeks and, if found guilty, the men face life sentences.

The couple were sailing from Yemen to Oman on a trip around the world when gunmen seized their yacht.

Evelyne Colombo told her rescuers that the assailants had dumped her husband’s body in the sea after he was killed.

The men have not been charged with homicide, but with hijacking, as well as theft, abduction and illegal confinement, according to a lawyer for one of the suspected attackers.


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Wouldn't it have avoided huge cost and a mountain of prison food if the Spanish navy just put a cap in each of their heads and threw them overboard for the fishes.

Edited March 30, 201610 yr by Steely Dan

Wouldn't it have avoided huge cost and a mountain of prison food if the Spanish navy just put a cap in each of their heads and threw them overboard for the fishes.

I'm a cheep Charlie, save the cap just tie a rock around their neck then through them overboard.

And this scum is walking into Europe unchallenged, be asured.

Wouldn't it have avoided huge cost and a mountain of prison food if the Spanish navy just put a cap in each of their heads and threw them overboard for the fishes.

Russian naval forces deal a bad hand to these subhuman pirates.

Maybe it's time to shake off our European rights shackles.

'The men have not been charged with homicide, but with hijacking, as well as theft, abduction and illegal confinement, according to a lawyer for one of the suspected attackers.' And there was I thinking it came under piracy ... which, in theory, still attracts the death penalty.

At least they were caught, Davy Jones locker for ya.

Piracy, you can hang them on the spot!

_{'Makes the death penalty begin to sound better & better, doesn't it? And not even being charged with homicide. Congratulations French taxpayers! More monsters for you to house, feed, clothe, provide medical care for, and guard ... for the rest of their lives.}

Edited April 3, 201610 yr by hawker9000