The Attorney General is yet to decide on whether or not to indict three men rescued at sea in 2019 by the container ship El Hiblu 1 on charges which include terrorist offences, a court has been told this morning. If indicted, the men will have to face a criminal trial before the superior courts and the prospect of imprisonment for life. The captain had claimed that the crew had locked themselves in the bridge as the migrants had acted aggressively. When the compilation of evidence continued this morning before magistrate Nadine Lia, the magistrate observed that the Office of the Attorney General had filed a note yesterday, asking for more time to decide whether to file a bill of indictment. The court therefore sent the acts of the case back to the Attorney General, with the case now being expected to continue in June.
