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From: Peter Oliver (no email)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 13:36:23 EST
Dear friends:
I received this article from another nautical spanish forum, if you are all interest in more info please go to the following links:
http://lanazione.quotidiano.net/art/2004/01/31/5138721
http://ilmattino.caltanet.it/hermes/20040131/CANADA/12/BELL.htm
http://corriere.virgilio.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2004/01_Gennaio/30/pirati.shtml
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/01/30/330601-ap.html
http://www.azcentral.com/spanish/latin-america/articles/latin-america_94142.html
Pirates rob, shoot dead, Italian sailboat captain off Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Pirates shot and killed an Italian sailboat captain at sea after robbing him and two companions, Venezuelan police said Friday.
Two survivors said the pirates shot Bruno Bianchella, 49, in the head after he tried to flee into the cabin of his sailboat, said Jose Zerpa, chief of the Margarita Island unit of Venezuela's federal investigative police.
Bianchella's Italian companions, Daniel Fusco, 49, and Lidio Banchetti, 41, were not harmed in the Wednesday-morning attack.
After the assailants fled on a small motorboat, Fusco and Banchetti set off a sonar alarm that alerted the coast guard.
The pirates escaped before Venezuelan authorities reached the site about 50 kilometres off Margarita, Zerpa said. They are believed to have been heading toward Trinidad and Tobago.
The Italians were sailing from St. Vincent of the Grenadines to the Venezuelan port city Puerto La Cruz when eight people on an old motorboat approached them to ask for water. Two of the assailants then boarded the sailboat and pulled out guns.
Zerpa said the Italians had trouble understanding the assailants' Spanish and in the ensuing confusion, Bianchella tried to flee and was shot.
Italian diplomats were arranging for Bianchella's body to be sent home to Italy, Zerpa said. He said Fusco and Banchetti were in Margarita answering questions from authorities but were not suspects themselves.
Bianchella's boat, which was named Joe's Dog and flew South African flags, was still anchored in Margarita.
Zerpa said pirate attacks are not uncommon along the Venezuelan coast but this was the first in Margarita waters in his six years as police chief.
Peter Oliver
Montevideo - Uruguay
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