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India pandering to emotions on fishermen's killing: Italy
Tuesday February 21, 2012 07:20:34 PM,
IANS
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Rome: Indian
authorities are pandering to emotions over the arrest of two
Italian Marines for last week's killing of two Indian fishermen,
Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has said.
Indian authorities are pandering to emotions and local politics,
Italian news agency AKI quoted the minister as saying Monday.
A security detail of Italian Marines Feb 15 fired at a fishing
boat off the coast of Kerala, killing two Indian fisherman. The
Italians said they mistook the victims to be pirates.
Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone are accused of carrying
out the shooting and were taken ashore Sunday and detained by
Indian authorities.
"At the moment, there are considerable differences of a judicial
nature," Terzi told reporters here.
Terzi said local politics was adding to the difficulty of
resolving the diplomatic differences.
The two Marines have been arrested and charged with murder. The
Italians say the incident took place in international waters and
the Italians should be tried in Italy. India disputes this.
"Complicating an already complex situation are the elections being
held in Kerala that are without a doubt influencing the feelings
of the citizens and as a consequence risk influencing the
investigation," the Italian foreign minister said.
Italy said the soldiers aboard the Enrica Lexie suspected the
fishing boat was a pirate vessel and followed proper procedures by
firing warning shots before taking direct aim. India says the
marines failed to show "restraint".
Terzi Monday spoke by telephone with his Indian counterpart S.M.
Krishna and said the fishing boat was in international waters. Its
location is a matter of dispute between the two countries.
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