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Bruno Pellizzari has been released: Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi, who personally monitored the phases of the release, has just conveyed the news to the man’s family.


So concludes an odyssey that began back on 26 October 2010, when the Italian national and his South African companion were abducted by Somali pirates from their boat, the “Sy Choizil”, off the coast of Tanzania.


“I would like to thank all the institutions” – Terziaffirmed – “thanks to whose tenacious efforts today’s result was made possible, to which the Somali authorities of the Transitional Federal Government also made a decisive contribution”.

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