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Somali pirates jailed in France for kidnapping couple

By Standard Digital | Dec. 1, 2011

A French court has jailed five Somali men for between four and eight years for hijacking a yacht and taking a French couple hostage.

The incident took place in the Gulf of Aden in September 2008.

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