VICTORIA (Halbeeg News) – Prosecutors in Seychelles have charged five Somali men suspected of being pirates with attempted hijack ship in Indian.
The men were transferred to Seychelles authorities by EU NAVFOR in last April after being captured by the EU NAVFOR’s flagship ESPS NAVARRA, according to Seychelles News Agency.
Seychelles police said that all five suspects will reappear in court on June 7.
The agency reports that among these suspects was a man once prosecuted for piracy in Seychelles.
The unnamed suspect was said to have been arrested and transferred to Seychelles’ authorities in November 2017 before was repatriated in December 2018, as per the police source in the archipelago.
Last month Somali pirates successfully captured a Yemeni dhow which they subsequently used as “mothership” for attacks on two Spanish fishing vessels, the first successful capture of such a vessel since 2017.
Seychelles, which located in the western Indian Ocean has been forefront in the process to prosecute pirate suspects since 2005 when the pirate attack in the Indian Ocean rumped up.
The Island was selected to suitable for prosecution center for Somali pirate suspects as it is geographically close to the Somali coast.
In 2015, the island nation set up a modern court complex that has special jurisdiction to hear cases related to such crimes.
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