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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 Somalia

Somali pirates jailed for French kidnapping

By AFP
Four of the accused admit to carrying out the hostage-taking.  By Benoit Peyrucq (AFP)Four of the accused admit to carrying out the hostage-taking. By Benoit Peyrucq (AFP)

PARIS (AFP) - A French court on Wednesday jailed five Somali men for up to eight years for taking a French couple hostage on their yacht in the Gulf of Aden, and acquitted a sixth.

In France's first prosecution of suspected Somali pirates, prosecutors had asked for the men, aged between 21 and 36, to be sent to jail for between six and 16 years.

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