Brussels, European Bureau - Jack Lang, special adviser to Secretary General of the UN piracy off Somalia, held in Brussels Tuesday, Feb. 22, suspect a connection between the activities of groups that attack boats and movements terrorists. "I hope this will not happen," said the former French minister of culture and education.
He urged the international community to act "quickly and decisively" against the spread of piracy activities and impunity still largely the authors. Some 90% of them are released for lack of a place to judge them. Mr. Lang met Tuesday the ambassadors of European Union states. He tried to convince them to ensure that their countries are willing to try their territory the pirates are caught.
They are allowed to do under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Yet, with few exceptions (the trials are planned in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium ...), they avoid them for fear of having to subsequently assume the incarceration of those arrested. The special adviser to Ban Ki-moon, who presented on 25 January, a report to members of the Security Council and hopes the upcoming vote for a resolution to the UN, stressed the need to "Somaliazation" response to a phenomenon which extends geographically and is now, he says, "extremely serious".
As part of the establishment of a mechanism to institute legal proceedings against hackers, law professor calls for strengthening the legal and prison Somalia itself. He advocates the establishment of two specialized courts, the gradual creation of a thousand prison places and the introduction, for example in Tanzania, a Somali court extraterritorially.
Socialist MP also stressed the need to provide economic and social alternatives for local people. Mr. Lang has pleaded with the Europeans to renew the naval mission Atalante supposed to end in late 2012. Launched in December 2008 with the backing of the UN, the first European naval military action involves more than twenty ships under the banner of the EU and other navies of countries involved (South Korea, Malaysia India, China ...).
Lang estimated that currently 30 ships and 800 hostages in the hands of pirates. "We must win the race against pirates 1500 and 6 or 7 sponsors, most known," says the man who was, in 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to Cuba. He contrasts the cost of its proposed - some 18.5 million euros - that of piracy, which is now around 7 billion euros.
Jean-Pierre Stroobants 
He urged the international community to act "quickly and decisively" against the spread of piracy activities and impunity still largely the authors. Some 90% of them are released for lack of a place to judge them. Mr. Lang met Tuesday the ambassadors of European Union states. He tried to convince them to ensure that their countries are willing to try their territory the pirates are caught.
They are allowed to do under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Yet, with few exceptions (the trials are planned in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium ...), they avoid them for fear of having to subsequently assume the incarceration of those arrested. The special adviser to Ban Ki-moon, who presented on 25 January, a report to members of the Security Council and hopes the upcoming vote for a resolution to the UN, stressed the need to "Somaliazation" response to a phenomenon which extends geographically and is now, he says, "extremely serious".
As part of the establishment of a mechanism to institute legal proceedings against hackers, law professor calls for strengthening the legal and prison Somalia itself. He advocates the establishment of two specialized courts, the gradual creation of a thousand prison places and the introduction, for example in Tanzania, a Somali court extraterritorially.
Socialist MP also stressed the need to provide economic and social alternatives for local people. Mr. Lang has pleaded with the Europeans to renew the naval mission Atalante supposed to end in late 2012. Launched in December 2008 with the backing of the UN, the first European naval military action involves more than twenty ships under the banner of the EU and other navies of countries involved (South Korea, Malaysia India, China ...).
Lang estimated that currently 30 ships and 800 hostages in the hands of pirates. "We must win the race against pirates 1500 and 6 or 7 sponsors, most known," says the man who was, in 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to Cuba. He contrasts the cost of its proposed - some 18.5 million euros - that of piracy, which is now around 7 billion euros.
Jean-Pierre Stroobants
- UN Report Urges New Anti-Piracy Measures (26/01/2011)
- Somali pirates should face special courts, says UN envoy - guardian.co.uk (02/02/2011)
- UN envoy proposes 'piracy courts' - Aljazeera.net (25/01/2011)
- Somali pirates should face special courts, says UN envoy (26/01/2011)
- Somali piracy: At sea (03/02/2011)
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