Summery
Ten men accused of hijacking a German ship are brought up on trial, in the first piracy trial in 400 years. The ten men tried to capture a German container ship in the Gulf of Aden, but failed because the 15 crew members locked themselves in the ship’s security room for several hours and stopped the engine making it impossible to take the ship to their home port. After a couple of hours the Dutch anti-piracy unit captured the ten Somali men. The court was unable to establish the ages of the men but they are facing a 15 year sentence.
Opinion
I have watched an read a lot of articles about these kinds of crimes at the Gulf of Aden, and there are two sides of the story, which both are fascinating. The Somali pirates are very poor people who reside to piracy, to make a living. They use small wooden boats and bamboo sticks, to climb up the ship’s deck. I think this is very impressive and ingenious. Looking at the ship’s owner perspective these Somali pirates are criminals and of course they are right. They have no right to capture these ships.
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