Court sentences Somali pirates to 5 years
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands Five Somali men were sentenced to prison today for attacking a Dutch-Antilles-flagged cargo ship with automatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe in modern times. The five were convicted of assaulting the Samanyulo in the Gulf of Aden in 2009 an attack that was thwarted up by helicopter-borne Danish marines …
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Court sentences Somali pirates to 5 years