![]() He said maybe the reason they charged them with piracy is because that would be the only charge to justify seizing a ship on the open seas.Īt Murmansk, he spent 23 hours each day in a cell with one other person - a 40-year-old Russian charged with dealing drugs. “There was no way that what we did should have been considered piracy,” he said. He said the first rule of Greenpeace is that there be no violence and the second rule is to cause no damage. What did surprise him and his crew was when they were charged with piracy upon their arrival in Murmansk. They fired across our bow about a dozen times to get us to stop and be boarded,” he said. They don’t have much of a sense of humor. ![]() Willcox said he does not know why such a hard line was taken this time but speculated. The crew had done the same type of action last year and there had been no consequences. What we expected was a 20,000 ruble or $700 fine,” Willcox said, adding that this has been the penalty other times. We had talked about the possibility of being arrested. ![]()
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