One pirate was killed and six others captured in the military operation, which was ordered by Sarkozy late Monday, according to the announcement issued on Tuesday, Sept.
16. Jean-Yves and Bernadette Delanne, originally from Polynesia, were abducted on Sept. 2 in the Gulf of Aden as they were France passes constitiutional reforms ...
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For their liberation, the pirates had demanded a ransom and the release of pirates captured in an earlier military operation to liberate hostages abducted in April.
After the couple's kidnapping and the recent attack by Somali pirates on a French tuna boat, the European Union decided on Monday to consider launching a naval operation in Somalia to protect European vessels.
EU ministers meeting in Brussels said they had approved "a strategic military option for a possible European Union naval operation."
(Deutsche Welle)
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