MV Safmarine Asia is a ship operated by the South African shipping company Safmarine that was unsuccessfully attacked by Somali pirates on 14 April 2009.
[1] The French frigate Nivôse responded to the vessel's distress call, and in the process, found and apprehended 11 Somali pirates.
[2] There were tried for piracy in Kenya.
[3] The pirates were then landed at Mombasa for trial in Kenya on 22 April 2009.
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