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Typically Spanish
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Negotiations reached a successful conclusion in a luxury hotel in London.
The Spanish crew of the kidnapped tuna fishing boat, ‘El Playa de Bakio’ which was boarded by pirates of the coast of Somalia last Sunday have now been released.
It comes after talks were reported to be taking place in a luxury London hotel, and was confirmed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa Fernández de la Vega on Saturday afternoon at a press conference in the Moncloa Palace.
The boat is owned by the Pequería Vasco Montañesa company, based in Bermeo in Vizcaya and had a total crew of 26, thirteen of them Spaniards – eight from Galicia and five from the Basque Country.
The pirates had asked for a 400,000 € ransom, and it is not known as yet how the release was negotiated. Since last Wednesday the Spanish navy frigate ‘Méndez Núñez’ has been keeping a watch on the boat, with more patrols in the air from a P-3 Orion plane.
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Source: Typically Spanish, April 26, 2008