NINE YEARS after the deaths of the two Indian fishermen Ajeesh Pink and Valentine Jelastine, the international incident that has devastated diplomatic relations between Italy and India since 15 February 2012 will close with a further million euros in compensation for families of the victims: as soon as Italy pays the agreed amount, for the two Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre and Nicola Girone, accused of having shot the fishing boat, considering it a piracy attack, the Indian judicial affair will be a thing of the past. The Supreme Court of India will declare the case definitively closed.
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by VINCENZO NIGRO
The news, which arrived today from India, is the natural outcome of a long judicial dispute that had reached a decisive turning point last July, when finally the Arbitral Court in which the case lay had ruled solomonically, holding Italy responsible for the death. of the two fishermen, as claimed by Delhi; but by entrusting to Rome the jurisdiction of the criminal trial for the two murders, as Italy had always maintained.
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By order of the International Arbitration Court, to which the two countries had turned to settle a now inextricable judicial and diplomatic tangle, Italy should therefore have found an agreement with India to compensate for the loss of human life, physical damage, the material damage to the vessel and the non-material damage suffered by the captain and crew of the Saint Anthony; the trial, on the other hand, is hinged by the prosecutor of Rome with the heavy accusation of “voluntary homicide” against the two riflemen.
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The investigation is now entrusted to the deputy prosecutor Erminio Amelio: having received the papers from the International Tribunal in The Hague, the prosecutor is analyzing them to decide how to proceed. In the meantime, the Italian state will pay the 100 million rupees (about 1.1 million euros) agreed as final compensation into an account of the Delhi Foreign Ministry. The sum is added to the 245 thousand euros paid immediately by Italy to the families to try to soften the harsh judicial line brought by the federal state of Kerala, the southern tip of India.
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The accident occurred in the mid-afternoon of February 15, 2012, while the fishing boat was in transfer in the long fishing trip that had lasted for about ten days. A night fishing, so all eleven crew members were sleeping below deck at that hour except Valentine, who was at the helm, and Aieesh, a 17-year-old boy who was in the stern. The dynamics versions diverge radically at this point.
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Based on the testimony of survivors, India claims that the two riflemen on guard in the team of six aboard the Enrica Lexie ship – on duty to protect the ship from piracy – suddenly fired at the fishing boat without putting in implement mandatory deterrent systems such as repeatedly sounding sirens and shooting in the air. Italy admits that there was a boarding attempt that day but at a different time, and the riflemen claim to have sounded the alarm and fired the intended warning shots by aiming away from the boat.
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That afternoon, in fact, other ships very similar to the Enrica Lexie would have suffered a suspicious approach by small boats: in that area, however, accidents between small fishing boats and large ships on the route to Asia were frequent, and events were rare. of piracy and attributable to militias that left Sri Lanka and not India. In any case, the fishing boat Saint Anthony returned to the harbor with two deaths on board and sixteen bullet holes compatible with those fired by two rifles supplied to the group of riflemen.
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This point is also mysterious: the guns of Latorre and Girone, respectively the head and the deputy of the rifle group, would not have fired, but those of two subordinates. In any case, Latorre and Girone claimed that it was they who fired to repel a potential attack, but only after having sounded the alarm and sure that they had not hit anyone.
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After a long diplomatic and judicial tug-of-war, Latorre and Girone returned to Italy respectively in 2014 and 2016. With the international affair closed and the accounts pending with India, the criminal trial must now begin to ascertain any responsibility for death. of the two fishermen.
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