Here is a heart warming lesson about how to handle pirates. Catch and release. How environmentally sound!
“[F]our men were released after German officials – consulting with the European Union-led Atalanta operation headquarters – decided not to extradite them to Kenya for prosecution.
“EU experts said they were not sufficiently sure that the men would be convicted in Kenya. The German government did not want to prosecute as no German interests had been damaged.
“Consequently, the men were released on Monday afternoon, within sight of the Somali coast.”
It’s not the fault of the German Navy. It’s the fault of those who think the best if not only solution is to have an international naval force patrolling the area, prepared to feed captured criminals for a few days and return them so they can do their thing again.
Bravo!
