Thiruvananthapuram: Italian lawyers claim that they have begun a separate probe into the alleged killings of two Indian fishermen in Italy and will ask Indian authorities to allow them to continue the probe in Italy itself.
The lawyers also said that Italy will invoke the UN law and ask for diplomatic immunity for the two arrested naval personnel.
Both men who allegedly shot dead two Indian fishermen were taken into cutody on Sunday.
Two naval guards of the Italian ship Enrica Lexie will be produced before a local magistrate in Kollam on Monday.
The two Indian fishermen – Valentine Jalastine and Ajeesh Binki – last week set out to sea in a boat along with nine fellow fishermen from Neendakara fishing harbour. They were allegedly killed by the marines of the ship who fired at their boat on February 15.
The Italian authorities have contended that the fishing boat was fired mistaking it to be a pirates' vessel.
After four days of negotiations involving Indian and Italian diplomats, the Naval guards were arrested by police in Kochi on Sunday.
They were later questioned by a team of senior police officials including Kochi City Police Commissioner MR Ajith Kumar and Kollam SP Sam Christy Daniel.
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