90,000 Euros in compensation paid after acquittal in 2008 du Ponant hijack case
Original Source: 20 Minutes (French language) by Vincent Vantighem
JUSTICE - Acquitted last June, two Somalis were granted 90,000 euros in compensation for having spent more than four years in custody in France.
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From left to right: Abdulqader, Abdurahman Abdullahi and three Somali arrested 4 years ago
after the attack by Somali pirates Ponant. They spent four years in prison. V. WARTNER / 20 MINUTES
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Acquitted and released in June in the case of suspected involvement in the kidnapping of the crew of the Ponant in 2008 in the Gulf of Aden, two Somalis obtained, on Monday, 90,000 euros in compensation for having spent four years in custody in France. The decision was made by the first president of the Court of Appeal of Paris. "It's shameful," Ollone Augustine, counsel for one of the two Somalis, tells 20 Minutes. "We will appeal this decision. We demanded 455,000 euros for our client ... "
A salary of lobster fishermen in Somalia
The compensation the Somalis have obtained can be broken down into two parts. The first is for the moral damages for having been away for more than four years away from their relatives. It is this that rises to 90,000 euros. In addition, both are also entitled to reimbursement of their pecuniary damage. Clearly, the State must pay part of the salary they would have been entitled outside of prison. The two Somalis were lobster fishermen in their country, they did not get 3,000 and 5,000 euros respectively for that material injury.
Forcibly in France
If Augustine Ollone has already planned to challenge the decision on behalf of Abdulqader, his client, he has also called for a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he can claim another form of reparation. "In prison, he developed a Ganser syndrome. That is to say, the appearance of hallucinations related to confinement, says the lawyer. Today, he is released from prison, but he can no longer live alone. He is totally disabled because of the mistreatment of prison... "
Stopped off Somalia, the two Somalis were forcibly returned to France by the French army, and spent four years in custody before finally being acquitted by the Assize Court of Paris in June. Since then, they have been supported by associations and their lawyers to start a new life in Paris.
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