The case of the two marines, Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, is also about to close before the Indian Supreme Court, after the final decision of international arbitration last July. According to Asia news, the High Court has ruled that the dossier will be closed when the Italian state has paid 100 million rupees (approximately 1.1 million euros) as compensation to an account of the Foreign Ministry in Delhi. The families of the fishermen have in fact accepted the compensation and the sum of money is added to that already paid in the past by Italy for about 245 thousand euros.
The families of the two fishermen killed, Ajeesh Pink and Valentine Jelastine, will receive 40 million rupees each, while the other 20 million will go to Freddy Bosco, owner of the St. Antony, who was injured in the 2012 shooting involving the Italian soldiers on board. of the ship Enrica Lexie and the fishing boat mistaken for a pirate boat. In July 2020, the International Arbitration Court established, after years of litigation between Italy and India, that the two Navy riflemen should be tried in Italy because they enjoyed “functional immunity” at the time. At the same time he decided that Italy should compensate for the loss of human life and the material and moral damage inflicted on the other crew members of the vessel.