French Navy Wins Another Battle With Somali Pirates
A French warship Sunday foiled attempts by Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden to seize two cargo vessels and intercepted 19 Pirates.
Jan van Rijn, Dutch mariner
File photo: Somalian pirates are heroes in their own home towns but are now attacking merchant ships along the Cape of Good Hope Route when they head to the harbours of Kenya and Tanzania.
In an announcement by the French President's Office, French Warships conducted another successful interdiction mission.
"Three days after a French vessel thwarted an attack on a Panamanian cargo ship" the frigate Jean de Vienne conducted a "decisive action" against "two new attacks", t
he report stated.
19 Somali Pirates were taken into custody and will be transferred to Somali Authorities.
The French defence ministry said pirates attempted to attack a Croatian and a Panamanian ship and that French forces seized assault rifles, two rocket launchers, and more than 1,000 litres of oil.
The incident came
three days after another French vessel captured eight Somali pirates who attacked a Panamanian registered vessel.
