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The Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen has voiced concern with the comfort that alleged Somali pirates find in Dutch prison cells. At a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, Verhagen pleaded for a United Nationa tribunal to try the pirates in an East African country, for example Kenya.
Five Somalis are currently on trial in the Netherlands after they failed to hijack a freighter sailing under the Dutch Antilles flag in January. The pirates have expressed their satisfaction with their prison cells, and at least one of them has said he wants to stay in the Netherlands after he is released and hopes to bring his family over.
