(see 'Libya: Italian machine-gunned fishing boat, ...' at 5.39pm) (ANSA) - CAIRO, 06 MAY - The Libyan Navy, which controls the Coast Guard, has denied having fired "at" Italian fishing boats but admitted that they are "warning shots in the air" were fired to stop fishing boats that, as it was said, had trespassed into Libyan territorial waters. "There were no shots fired against boats, but warning shots in the air", Commodore Masoud Ibrahim Abdelsamad, spokesman for Marinalibica, told ANSA over the phone, without providing further details on the incident for the moment. (HANDLE).
Libyan navy, warning shots to Italian fishing boats
2021-05-07T21:09:12.201Z
The Libyan Navy, which controls the Coast Guard, has denied having fired "at" Italian fishing boats but admitted that "warning shots in the air" were fired to stop fishing boats that, according to it, had trespassed into the waters ... (HANDLE)
