{"id":122200,"date":"2021-05-10T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122200"},"modified":"2021-05-10T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:52:47","slug":"libyan-navy-denies-shooting-at-italian-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122200","title":{"rendered":"Libyan navy denies shooting at Italian fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/devdiscourse.blob.core.windows.net\/devnews\/10_05_2021_07_07_37_4880686.jpg\" alt=\"Libyan Navy denies shooting at Italian fisherman\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIPOLI, May 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan navy on Sunday denied shooting at an Italian fisherman off the Libyan coast during an operation against four boats from Sicily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The navy said in a statement that four Italian fishing boats were spotted on Thursday about 48 km off the coast of Khoms city, some 120 km east of the capital Tripoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Libyan Coast Guard vessel went to the location and issued orders to the Italian boats to be inspected, but the boats did not respond, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the Italian boats was captured and inspected in the presence of an Italian navy vessel and was then released after the crew signed a pledge not to fish in the area, the statement said, adding that a member of the Italian boat&#8217;s crew was injured &#8220;when he hit one of the windows of the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio condemned the Coast Guard&#8217;s actions but also warned against crossing into Libyan waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have been advising against going there not just for months but for 10 years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvatore Quinci, mayor of the fishing port of Mazaro del Vallo in southwestern Sicily, said members of the Coast Guard shot at the fisherman&#8217;s boat, the Italian news agency Agi reported.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI, May 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan navy on Sunday denied shooting at an Italian fisherman off the Libyan coast during an operation against four boats from Sicily. The navy said in a statement that four Italian fishing boats were spotted on Thursday about 48 km off the coast of Khoms city, some 120 km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}