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A diplomatic dispute between Italy and India erupted on 11 March 2013, after the Italian Foreign Ministry reneged on its promise given to the Supreme Court of India and stated that the two soldiers involved in the 2012 Italian Navy Marines shooting incident in the Laccadive Sea would not return to India. == Background == (詳細はMT Enrica Lexie'', opened fire in the direction of ''St. Antony'', an Indian fishing trawler, and caused the deaths of two crew members. On 19 February 2012, Indian authorities detained Chief Master Sergeant Massimiliano Latorre and Sergeant Salvatore Girone, two of the six-member VPD team from the San Marco Regiment of the Italian Navy, after ballistic tests linked weapons impounded onboard ''MT Enrica Lexie'' to bullet fragments found in the bodies of the two dead crew members of ''St. Antony''. The two marines were allowed to return to Italy and be with their families during the Christmas and New Year vacation period in December 2012 by the Kerala High Court. The two marines returned to India in January 2013. On 22 February 2013, the Supreme Court of India allowed Girone and Latorre a second exception, as a gesture of good-will, to return to Italy for an extended break of four weeks to vote at the general election and be with their families. This permit was granted on the basis of affidavits by Italy's representatives (ambassador of Italy in India with an email from the foreign minister and the prime minister) that the marines would be returned to face the Indian courts. Indian media raised the prospect that the Italian envoy had filed a false affidavit in the Supreme Court by revealing that the marines could have voted either at the Italian embassy or by postal ballot and need not have travelled to Italy to vote in the elections.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Disrespect to Indian judiciary )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Can we trust Italy anymore? Marines could have voted here )〕 Highlighting the exceptional leniency accorded to the two marines by Indian courts, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi summed up the public sentiment in India by saying: "We let two under-trial Italians go to their country to vote. Here, under-trial (Indian) citizens are not even allowed to attend their mother's funeral."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sg.news.yahoo.com/italian-marines-issue-insult-modi-074347635.html )〕 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Defense minister Giampaolo Di Paola, and Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi irked public opinion both in Italy and India by ceremoniously receiving the marines upon their arrival in Italy and hailing them as 'Italian heroes' even though they stand accused of manslaughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2013 Italy–India diplomatic tensions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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