Italy to pay families of slain Indians
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April 21, 2012, Saturday
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ITALY has agreed to pay nearly US$200,000 to each of the families of two dead Indian fishermen allegedly shot by Italian marines who mistook them for pirates, lawyers for the victims' families said yesterday.
V.M. Syamkumar, a lawyer for the sisters of slain fisherman Ajeesh Pink, said details of an accord to pay 10 million rupees (US$192,308) to each family have been finalized, "but the actual signing is yet to be done."
The government's criminal case against the two marines would be unaffected by the settlement and continue in the courts of the south Indian state of Kerala, lawyers for both families said.
If the settlement goes through, the families would withdraw their civil complaint for compensation and withdraw requests for criminal action to be initiated against the ship's captain, Syamkumar said.
C. Unnikrishnan, lawyer for the widow of slain fisherman Valantine, who goes by one name, said a petition for an out-of-court settlement was filed on Thursday and that he expects it to be finalized next Tuesday.
Italian officials have spoken with the families of the fishermen and their priest for weeks, Italian Consul General Giampaolo Cutillo said.
"We wanted to express our condolences and solidarity," Cutillo said.
Italy will continue its legal fight to get jurisdiction over the case and bring the soldiers back to Italy to face trial, he said. The two men are now in a jail in Kerala.
V.M. Syamkumar, a lawyer for the sisters of slain fisherman Ajeesh Pink, said details of an accord to pay 10 million rupees (US$192,308) to each family have been finalized, "but the actual signing is yet to be done."
The government's criminal case against the two marines would be unaffected by the settlement and continue in the courts of the south Indian state of Kerala, lawyers for both families said.
If the settlement goes through, the families would withdraw their civil complaint for compensation and withdraw requests for criminal action to be initiated against the ship's captain, Syamkumar said.
C. Unnikrishnan, lawyer for the widow of slain fisherman Valantine, who goes by one name, said a petition for an out-of-court settlement was filed on Thursday and that he expects it to be finalized next Tuesday.
Italian officials have spoken with the families of the fishermen and their priest for weeks, Italian Consul General Giampaolo Cutillo said.
"We wanted to express our condolences and solidarity," Cutillo said.
Italy will continue its legal fight to get jurisdiction over the case and bring the soldiers back to Italy to face trial, he said. The two men are now in a jail in Kerala.
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