Seychelles

Seychelles
Seychelles : Foreign fleets have been deployed off the Gulf of Aden since the beginning of 2009, running convoys, and the establishment of safe corridors through the most dangerous waters and arrest the pirates and the seizure of ships.
“The French navy handed over these pirates, and the two boats, boat and evidence a video showing this kind of weapons they were carrying,” Mohamed Jama Sicid, Puntland’s deputy police commissioner, told a news conference in the port of Bossaso, while receiving the suspects.
“This video shows their intention was not the purpose of fishing, or other civil works. They (the French) threw the confiscated weapons and ammunition in the ocean. Pirates will be taken to court soon.”
Jama did not specify the quality of weapons that the pirates.
And officers of the Navy, sailing frigate, intercepted and seized the suspected pirates, just 85 miles off the coast of Mogadishu last week.
“There are two boys under the legal age, and of them of the French said they were not sure what activities they are engaged and had been arrested on board the boat separately, and will achieve more,” Jama said.
Encouraged by higher payments for ransom, Somali sea bandits and increased attacks in recent months, making tens of millions of dollars by the seizure of vessels sailing in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, the busy shipping lanes linking Europe and Asia.
Pirates have said they are innocent and were arrested while casting fishing nets into the ocean.
“We are fishermen, and I have no idea why we were arrested,” One suspect, Abdullah Ahmed, told Reuters.
Ahmed said the French navy officers detained 11 of their colleagues and are on board the frigate.
Pirates had expanded the scope within which they operate off the coast of Somalia, and was known to seize ships in places as far away as the Seychelles.
Andrew Mwangura of the East Africa Seafarers Assistance Program said on Thursday that pirates tried to hijack a cargo ship, German, Lepke average, about 450 miles north-east of the Seychelles when it was on its way to the port of Salalah in the Sultanate of Oman.
There were no injuries, said Mwangura.
(Writing by Hassan Abdulaziz, editing by George Obulutsa and Michael Roddy)