Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone are two marines whom security detachment assigned to protect the merchant vessel Enrica Lexie from pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean.
Now they have been arrested by Italian Police force yesterday under the allegations of killing two Indian fishermen. As per report, the Marines have remanded in Kochi police custody for three days.
But Indian police has criticized Italian authority’s action to arrest the soldiers as against Indian Penal Law because as per them the firing happened in Indian territorial waters. Read more
