Somalis to face kidnapping charges in the Netherlands

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9:29 PM Mon 6 Dec 2010 GMT

'Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz - still in Somali pirates’ hands' .

There's no word of the South African cruising sailors kidnapped over a month ago while sailing off Tanzania, but some of their alleged abductors have been flown to the Netherlands to face charges of kidnapping. Five Somalis of the twenty arrested last week are now in the Netherlands. They are the ones suspected of having abducted two South Africans from their yacht off the Seychelles. They were transferred to the Netherlands Sunday for trial, the Dutch defence ministry announced. 'The Somalis are suspected of having hijacked the South Africa yacht Choizil and abducted two South African citizens November 7,' said ...

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