6 pirates captured, hostages released
PARIS (AP) - April 11, 2008 The French president's office says the pirates are now being
held on a French Navy vessel. The president's office made the
announcement Friday.
France sent an elite commando force to the East African region
after pirates seized the boat, Le Ponant, in the Gulf of Aden on
April 4.
It carried no passengers but 30 crew members, 22 of them French.