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you have to pay any price for the right to keep our flag high.It's not like it's savior crew and maximum latorre are two riflemen of the battalion san marco (impropriately called “moro”), arrested in India on 19 February last year and currently at the center of a diplomatic “war” between Italy and India; let's see how the events took place...
on the evening of 15 February 2012 two Indian fishermen, valentine jalstine and ajesh binki, are killed by gunshots on their boat off the coast of the kerala. on the same day, the Italian navy announces that a pirate attack by two of the six military embarked on anti-piracy service aboard the tanker enrica lexie. the two soldiers opened fire on what, according to their reconstruction, looked like a “skiffie”, the boat generally used by pirates in the Indian Ocean to assault commercial boats.
the next day, 16 February, on request of the Indian Coast Guard, the commander of the Italian oil tanker enters the port of kochi officially for the identification of some pirates suspected of being the assailants of our ship. here the two military are accused of killing two fishermen, accusing that it is immediately rejected stating that only warning shots were fired as provided by the rules of engagement. on 19 February the authorities of the kerala took from the oil tanker the two Italians who are stopped, questioned and, placed in a "guest house" of the police. According to the accusation the two Indian fishermen, traded for pirates, would have been killed by the fire of our military.
From the outset, the Italian authorities provide legal assistance and material support to the two military, while the undersecretary of foreign staff is sent to follow the story on the spot.
at the end of February the foreign minister also arrives india, first to new delhi, and then to kochi, to meet latorre and group.
According to our country the accident occurred in the open sea, off the Indian state of the kerala with the two marò in anti-piracy service on an oil tanker (we will see later what this means), the enrica lexie and the india has no jurisdiction on the case since the ship was in international waters.
already in this preliminary phase are the first disagreements between the Indian and the Italian version. According to the Italian reconstruction, publicly supported by various representatives of the Italian government as well as by the authorities of the Italian Navy, the firefight would have occurred at 33 nautical miles from the coasts of the keral and therefore, not in Indian territorial waters but in international waters and this is perhaps the most important data and I will try to explain it.
According to international standards and conventions of international maritime law still in force (in particular the 1982 Montego Bay Convention), this would exclude Indian competence in the management of investigations. but the india reclaims its jurisdiction over the incident stating that the shooting would still happen in a marine space included within 200 maritime miles, or in full "exclusive economic zone" (zee) Indian.
but the zee gives the state that demands its exclusivity, only full management of natural resources, jurisdiction in the matter of installation and use of artificial or fixed structures, scientific research, protection and conservation of the marine environment. Moreover, if the figure of 33 miles is confirmed, this would also exclude the Indian call to the so-called “continuous zone”, or within the 24 miles on which the coastal state may claim not already sovereign rights, but only control rights on the ships in transit, aimed at preventing or repressing infringements to its customs, tax, health or immigration laws.
we see the other profound differences. According to Italy the shots fired would be twenty, all exploded in full respect of the rules of engagement, i.e. blows in air followed by shots in water, towards a boat carrying 5 armed people. the reconstruction of the Indian authorities instead describes a scenario for which the shots would have been over 60, shot from board of the Italian ship in Indian territorial waters killing the two fishermen, one native of the kerala and the other of the tamil nadu, on board of a vessel, st. anthony.
a second substantial divergence is on the time of events. comforted by some photos taken by Italian soldiers, the armed confrontation would take place at 16,00 local time to which he followed a report sent in Italy at 16,30. According to the Indians, however, the shooting would take place two hours later that is, at the same time, another action of piracy always occurred in those waters. to deny the Indian Coast Guard that the return to the port of the fishing boat with the two dead fishermen takes place at 18.00 there are television pictures showing how dark pesto (in that period the sun sets at 18.35). a false attempt to cover the fact that the vessel was elsewhere, not near the enrica lexie.
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on the evening of 15 February 2012 two Indian fishermen, valentine jalstine and ajesh binki, are killed by gunshots on their boat off the coast of the kerala. on the same day, the Italian navy announces that a pirate attack by two of the six military embarked on anti-piracy service aboard the tanker enrica lexie. the two soldiers opened fire on what, according to their reconstruction, looked like a “skiffie”, the boat generally used by pirates in the Indian Ocean to assault commercial boats.
the next day, 16 February, on request of the Indian Coast Guard, the commander of the Italian oil tanker enters the port of kochi officially for the identification of some pirates suspected of being the assailants of our ship. here the two military are accused of killing two fishermen, accusing that it is immediately rejected stating that only warning shots were fired as provided by the rules of engagement. on 19 February the authorities of the kerala took from the oil tanker the two Italians who are stopped, questioned and, placed in a "guest house" of the police. According to the accusation the two Indian fishermen, traded for pirates, would have been killed by the fire of our military.
From the outset, the Italian authorities provide legal assistance and material support to the two military, while the undersecretary of foreign staff is sent to follow the story on the spot.
at the end of February the foreign minister also arrives india, first to new delhi, and then to kochi, to meet latorre and group.
According to our country the accident occurred in the open sea, off the Indian state of the kerala with the two marò in anti-piracy service on an oil tanker (we will see later what this means), the enrica lexie and the india has no jurisdiction on the case since the ship was in international waters.
already in this preliminary phase are the first disagreements between the Indian and the Italian version. According to the Italian reconstruction, publicly supported by various representatives of the Italian government as well as by the authorities of the Italian Navy, the firefight would have occurred at 33 nautical miles from the coasts of the keral and therefore, not in Indian territorial waters but in international waters and this is perhaps the most important data and I will try to explain it.
According to international standards and conventions of international maritime law still in force (in particular the 1982 Montego Bay Convention), this would exclude Indian competence in the management of investigations. but the india reclaims its jurisdiction over the incident stating that the shooting would still happen in a marine space included within 200 maritime miles, or in full "exclusive economic zone" (zee) Indian.
but the zee gives the state that demands its exclusivity, only full management of natural resources, jurisdiction in the matter of installation and use of artificial or fixed structures, scientific research, protection and conservation of the marine environment. Moreover, if the figure of 33 miles is confirmed, this would also exclude the Indian call to the so-called “continuous zone”, or within the 24 miles on which the coastal state may claim not already sovereign rights, but only control rights on the ships in transit, aimed at preventing or repressing infringements to its customs, tax, health or immigration laws.
we see the other profound differences. According to Italy the shots fired would be twenty, all exploded in full respect of the rules of engagement, i.e. blows in air followed by shots in water, towards a boat carrying 5 armed people. the reconstruction of the Indian authorities instead describes a scenario for which the shots would have been over 60, shot from board of the Italian ship in Indian territorial waters killing the two fishermen, one native of the kerala and the other of the tamil nadu, on board of a vessel, st. anthony.
a second substantial divergence is on the time of events. comforted by some photos taken by Italian soldiers, the armed confrontation would take place at 16,00 local time to which he followed a report sent in Italy at 16,30. According to the Indians, however, the shooting would take place two hours later that is, at the same time, another action of piracy always occurred in those waters. to deny the Indian Coast Guard that the return to the port of the fishing boat with the two dead fishermen takes place at 18.00 there are television pictures showing how dark pesto (in that period the sun sets at 18.35). a false attempt to cover the fact that the vessel was elsewhere, not near the enrica lexie.
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