Yeah I think the ECHR ruling is bullcrap and ought to be ignored. International maritime law is higher than ECHR.
In the end, ECHR’s ruling will result in more pirates executed at sea, if this ruling is going to be the norm. Just wipe em out out there and be done with it.
MAybe a blessing in disguise if the militaries get the “right” solution.
I have to admit crying a little over the ‘3 greens’ scene at the end of ‘Captain Phillips’.
I’m a sucker for fuzzy, feel-good endings.
I would have cut their heads off, put them in a box, and sent them to the maximum leader of that anal tract of a nation.