[b] LR WORLD EXCLUSIVE [/b] Unheard the ultimatum of the pirates by ship-owner and by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Frattini. The pirates have done what threatened in the ultimatum of two days ago, three Italians brought to the ground. The names of the three Italians are Bon, Guardascione and Cesaro. Hours of deep anguish for relatives in Italy. Neither this time the owner of Caylyn Savina, Fratelli D`Amato and our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, replied to the ultimatum of May 19 by Somali pirates. Today it was yet another distressing phone call from the two hostages on board ship. Pirates in fact, have done what threatened in their ultimatum and have landed three of five Italian seamen held hostage with Savina Caylyn in front of the coast of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, considered with its ports, the lair where the pirates bring their `prey` captured. The communication of the two Italians who remained on the Savina Caylin, Captain Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Antonio Verrecchia, arrived before 14 o`clock. `Not having complied with the requests of the pirates in the ultimatum announced two days ago, this morning were disembarked and transferred on the land in the hills of the desert, the other 3 members of the Italian crew. There wasn’t contact between the Italian authorities, the ship-owner and the pirates. For this reason it was necessary to exacerbate the conditions of captivity of the hostages`. All the group of pirates have said that they are willing to revise the amount of the ransom, if they will receive soon by the owner ,the requested fax, lowering the initial amount of $ 16 million to 10.6 million. This are hours of great distress for the kidnapped sailors’ relatives, situation exacerbated by institutional and media silence that has descended on this news. From the moment of publication of the ultimatum, by LiberoReporter Magazine, the news has not been raised by any national media (except for a couple of newspapers that have reported only the news of the ultimatum today, when it was expired, with improper delay of 48 hours).`The continuation of this situation, will produce a serious moral guilty of what will happen to our sailors, not only for the owner of the CS or for Berlusconi”- said the Director of LiberoReporter Magazine ,Gaetano Baldi – “…but also for all Italian national press, which is self-gagging about a so serious situation. Beyond the parochialism of Italian medias, it would be reasonable to work ethically and focus all together, what is actually doing the Italian foreign ministry. I wish to have not needs abroad, if this is the Italian way of operating for authorities responsible of our safeguarding abroad ` Having moved to the ground three of our seamen, it is not certainly a good sign because in this case there are not possibility of such monitoring by our Navy forces and we do not know what the pirates are going to do. Then the story gets serious and growing tensions. We ask to know in which way our ministry will really operate in order to obtain the release of the seamen into the hands of this modern buccaneers”.
T.Siciliano