Girone in Italy Sat afternoon (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, May 27 - Marine Salvatore Girone will return to Italy Saturday afternoon after Thursday's green light from the Indian supreme court, ANSA learned Friday. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti will welcome him home at Ciampino Airport. Earlier Friday Girone - accused with fellow marine Massimilano Latorre of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 - filed the last papers needed to leave India. An international tribunal of arbitration in The Hague earlier this year ruled that Girone could join Latorre in Italy for the duration of the arbitration, which is expected to end in late 2018.