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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...e-surround-vessel-amid-concerns-has-hijacked/

A tanker bound for Southampton has been placed in a 5 mile exclusion zone after migrants hijacked the vessel. The vessel contains oil and left Nigeria last week.

How long before the media try and turn it into a story of "how desperate must these people be, we must let them in"

Edit: Now being picked up by international news


BBC and Guardian refusing to mention the migrant and hijacking part, claiming it's merely an "ongoing incident"
 
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Lawyers of the owners are claiming it's not a hijacking and they are just stowaways who became violent towards the crew as it neared the Isle of Wight. The crew have retreated to the citidel (safe room).

So yeah a hijacking...

BBC https://archive.md/vnXxR

Edit: Sky news has some more details

The 7 stowaways were found at around 10.45am when the ship began it's erratic zig-zagging and became violent when the crew tried to lock them in a cabin. The route the ship took is well known for smuggling. There is a 5 nauticle mile exclusion zone around the ship.
 
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New Fag said:
Lawyers of the owners are claiming it's not a hijacking and they are just stowaways who became violent towards the crew as it neared the Isle of Wight. The crew have retreated to the citidel (safe room).

So yeah a hijacking...

BBC https://archive.md/vnXxR
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"The crew retreated to the ship's citadel, a secure area in which they can lock themselves, making it impossible for attackers to get in.
This is standard procedure during a terrorist or pirate attack, but there is no suggestion the crew were doing more than protecting themselves from the stowaways."
 
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Austrian Conscript 1915 said:
null taught me that the usa goes out of its way to capture pirates because they're the only country in the world that doesn't execute people for privateering
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Privateering requires a letter of marque and reprisal from a head of state and hasn't existed since the 1856 Declaration of Paris.

In 2008 the Foreign Office told the Royal Navy to not capture pirates because they could then claim asylum in the UK under the Human Rights Act of 1998, depending on the punishment that awaits them if sent back to where they came from (and I'm not sure if that's Nigeria, where the ship set sail and I assume where the hijackers are from, or Liberia, where the ship is flagged and registered). If it's the former, they would almost certainly try to claim asylum.

(Hilariously, the Liberian Registry has a great anti-piracy program with extensive library, including a chapter on stowaways.)
 
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Seven suspects have been detained after a suspected hijacking involving stowaways on a tanker off the Isle of Wight.
UK special forces completed the operation in nine minutes, BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale said.
Military assistance had been requested after the stowaways on board the Liberian-registered Nave Andromeda reportedly became violent.
The crew, who were locked in the ship's citadel, are safe.
The Ministry of Defence called the incident a "suspected hijacking" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised the operation in response to a police request.
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image captionThe operation took place under the cover of darkness
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Mr Wallace said: "I commend the hard work of the armed forces and police to protect lives and secure the ship.
"In dark skies, and worsening weather, we should all be grateful for our brave personnel. People are safe tonight thanks to their efforts."
Mrs Patel tweeted she was "thankful for the quick and decisive action of our police and armed forces who were able to bring this situation under control, guaranteeing the safety of all those on board".
Mr Beale said the individuals were detained after they were met with "overwhelming force".

media captionFootage of the oil tanker situated off the Isle of Wight
He said members of the Special Boat Service based at Poole, in Dorset, were involved in the operation, which also featured six helicopters.
A team of Royal Navy divers were also flown in one of the Royal Navy helicopters in case the vessel had been mined but it had not.
Concerns over the crew's welfare were raised at 10:04 GMT when the vessel was six miles off Bembridge, police said.
A spokesman said "verbal threats" had been made towards the crew.
A three-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the vessel.
Richard Meade, editor of shipping news journal Lloyd's List, had earlier said there were thought to have been seven stowaways on board.
He said it was believed they had become violent towards the crew after they attempted to detain them in a cabin.
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Paul Clifton, BBC South transport correspondent​

The tanker Andromeda, owned by Greek shipping company Navios, was en route from Lagos in Nigeria to Fawley oil refinery on Southampton Water.
It had not stopped anywhere else.
According to a source close to the shipping company, the crew were aware of stowaways on board, but the stowaways became violent towards the crew while it was off the Isle of Wight.
The crew retreated to the ship's citadel, a secure area in which they can lock themselves, making it impossible for attackers to get in.
This is standard procedure during a terrorist or pirate attack, but there is no suggestion the crew were doing more than protecting themselves from the stowaways.
The crew contacted the coastguard, which then alerted police.
Navios are a long-established shipping company with a good reputation.
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The 240ft-long (73m) ship is known to have left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October and was south of the Isle of Wight when the police were called.
Lawyers for the vessel's owners said they had been aware of the stowaways on board for some time.
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the boarding of the tanker was a "good outcome".
He said: "Seven stowaways on board taking over a ship or causing the ship not to be in full command would have triggered a multi-agency alarm and then well-rehearsed classified protocols were then put into action."
In December 2018, four stowaways were detained after they ran amok on a container ship in the Thames Estuary.
The men, from Nigeria and Liberia, waved metal poles and threw faeces and urine after being found hiding on the Grande Tema.
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Hopefully these stowaways will be made an example of seeing as they've probably pissed off some oil company bods.
 
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