India pandering to emotions on fishermen’s killing: Italy
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February 21, 2012, Malayala Manorama
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. READ.....
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