INDIA: Angry Kerala fishermen demand the authorities arrest Italy's ambassador after two Italian nationals charged with killing local fishermen failed to return to India to face the courts

Record ID: 1374633

  • Title: INDIA: Angry Kerala fishermen demand the authorities arrest Italy's ambassador after two Italian nationals charged with killing local fishermen failed to return to India to face the courts
  • Date: 20th March 2013
  • Summary: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA (MARCH 20, 2013) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) A MAN ADDRESSING THE PROTESTING FISHERMEN FISHERMEN DURING PROTEST WOMEN IN PROTEST FLAGS OF INDIAN NATIONAL TRADE UNION CONGRESS (INTUC) FISHERMEN IN PROTEST PROTESTERS MAN ADDRESSING THE PROTESTERS PROTESTERS SITTING EXTERIOR OF THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE A SIGN READING 'KERALA RAJ BHAVAN' (Hindi for Government House) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIRMAN OF FISHERMEN COORDINATION COMMITTEE, V. DINAKARAN, SAYING: "We demand the arrest of the Italian ambassador who presented an affidavit before the honourable Supreme Court to get bail for these Italian Marines to go to their country. He is the culprit now in India. He is present in India." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVENOR OF KERALA FISHERIES COORDINATION COMMITTEE (KFCC), V. V. SASEENDRAN, SAYING: "All the trade unions came together to fight against Italian attitude. Today we started the agitation. It will not stop. When the Italians will come in here, up to that time our fight will go all over India." NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARCH 18, 2013) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) EXTERIOR OF INDIAN SUPREME COURT INDIAN FLAG OUTSIDE THE SUPREME COURT NEW DELHI, INDIA (RECENT - MARCH 13, 2013) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO INDIA, DANIELE MANCINI, SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS KOCHI, INDIA (FILE - 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) ITALIAN MARINES, MASSIMILIANO LATORRE AND SALVATORE GIRONE BEING ESCORTED BY POLICE LATORRE AND GIRONE ENTERING COURT LATORRE AND GIRONE COMING OUT OF COURTROOM LATORRE AND GIRONE ENTERING POLICE VEHICLE LATORRE AND GIRONE SITTING INSIDE POLICE VEHICLE POLICE VEHICLE LEAVING ITALIAN SHIP 'ENRICA LEXI' DOCKED AT PORT
  • Embargoed: 4th April 2013 20:59
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Crime,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVADUE5UGX2Q6C2ODWYI0ZVDWZ0F
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: Angry Kerala fishermen protesting outside the Governor'shouse in Thiruvananthapuram, southern India, on Wednesday (March 20) demanded the authorities arrest Italy's ambassador after two Italian nationals charged with killing local fishermen failed to return to face the courts.
    The marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, part of a security team protecting a tanker from pirates, are accused of shooting the two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in February last year.
    India's Supreme Court had allowed the marines to go home for four weeks to vote in last month's parliamentary election, provided they returned.
    They have not done so, and Italy's Foreign Ministry said the incident had become a formal dispute over U.N. laws.
    India's top court last week temporarily barred the envoy, Daniele Mancini, from leaving after Rome refused to send the marines back to India to face trial following a home visit.
    And on Tuesday the European Union said India would be breaking international law if it stops Italy's ambassador from leaving the country.
    "We demand the arrest of the Italian ambassador who presented an affidavit before the honourable Supreme Court to get bail for these Italian Marines to go to their country. He is the culprit now in India. He is present in India," said V. Dinakaran, Chairman of Fishermen Coordination Committee.
    India's Supreme Court said in a long-awaited ruling in January that India had jurisdiction to try the marines, but Italy has challenged that decision, arguing that the shooting took place in international waters.
    Italy's announcement that the sailors would not return caused an uproar in India' parliament and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is under pressure to respond forcefully.
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