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A massive $3.3 million was paid by Spain Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to the Somalian pirates to freed a Spanish trawler Alakrana and 36 crew members. The trawler with 16 Spaniards, 12 members from different African nations, and 8 Indonesians had been seized last month, October 2, and were kept by pirates for about 6 weeks.
Zapatero can’t deny that he paid for the ransom. He said that he just did what he had to do. He said that his first obligations to the country is to make his countrymen safe and to save their lives. The Spanish government didn’t want to prolong the negotiations and they didn’t want the hostages to suffer a lot in the hands of those pirates. So they paid the ransom amounting to $3.3 million to end up the deals.
The hostages are now safe and it was reported that all of them were in good health.
It was not the first time that Somalian pirates hijacked ships and take the people as their hostages. They were also the one captured British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler. They are currently asking for $7 million ransom for the release of Paul and Rachel but the UK government strongly decided not to pay ransom to release the couple. And on Monday, they attacked two more ships so in total, they have captured 12 ships with more than 200 crew.
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