MARINS IN INDIA

Marines, India: no risk death penalty
New reassurance from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi

18:16 - India has assured Italy that the story of the marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone "does not fall in those cases where we can apply the death penalty." To declare was the Foreign Minister of New Delhi, Salman Khurshid, addressing the colleague of the Interior, Sushil Kumar Shinde, such as Ibn-CNN television reported.


"I explained the point of view of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the matter to the Minister of the Interior," which also "has the last word," said the chief diplomat in New Delhi. "I remembered - he continued - that there is the fact that the Indian government has given an assurance that the two marines do not risk the death penalty."

The node "death penalty" - On one hand, the Indian police Nia may submit a report on the case, which took place outside the territorial waters, using only Indian law for the suppression of piracy (USA Act), which implies the application of the death penalty . On the other hand, if you remove the HIS Act, in order to avoid prosecution for the death penalty and is invoked only the penal code, then Nia has no jurisdiction.

De Mistura: "Question excluded from time" - "The question of the death penalty applicable to the marines has long been totally excluded from both past statements by the Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, both from positions taken in this regard in the Parliament of New Delhi. " It 'as said the special envoy of the Italian government, Staffan de Mistura.