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Denmark charges suspected Nigerian pirate

By AFP
11 May 2022   |   10:58 am
Denmark has charged a suspected Nigerian pirate captured after a deadly shootout in the Gulf of Guinea with endangering the lives of its sailors, prosecutor Per Fiig announced on Monday. The 39-year-old who lost a leg in the clash with the Danish navy last November faces up to eight years in jail. Danish authorities said…

Denmark has charged a suspected Nigerian pirate captured after a deadly shootout in the Gulf of Guinea with endangering the lives of its sailors, prosecutor Per Fiig announced on Monday.

The 39-year-old who lost a leg in the clash with the Danish navy last November faces up to eight years in jail.

Danish authorities said four other pirates were killed and one more went overboard from the Danish frigate Esbern Snare on an anti-piracy patrol in international waters off West Africa.

A piracy hotspot stretching 5,700 kilometres (3,540 miles), from Senegal to Angola, the Gulf of Guinea saw 52 attacks in 2021, down on 115 the previous year 2020, according to the Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Centre.

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