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India wins Italian Marines case at international tribunal, entitled to compensation

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The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in the Netherlands on Thursday ruled that India is entitled to claim compensation from Italy, in the case of the two Italian marines who were accused of killing Indian fishermen in 2012 off the coast of Kerala, Live Law reported.

The marines, who were onboard Italian merchant vessel Enrica Lexie on February 15 that year, had claimed they fired at the fishermen because they were in international waters and claimed to have mistaken them for pirates.

The court said the two marines, Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, had violated international law and as a result Italy breached India’s freedom of navigation, under the United NationsUnited NationsUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The tribunal said compensation must be provided to India for loss of life, material and moral harm suffered by the captain and crew of the Indian shipping vessel on which the marines fired.