Supporters of two Italian marines
being held in India protested as preparations for the lavish
wedding of an Indian heiress got underway in the southern Puglia
region, where both marines hail from.
Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre are being held in
India on possible murder charges in the 2012 shooting deaths of
two Indian fishermen, whom they allegedly mistook for pirates.
Indian iron magnate Pramod Agarwal has chosen to throw his
third daughter, Ritika Agarwal, a lavish three-day wedding in
the Puglia town of Fasano, irking some of the marines'
supporters.
They have created a Facebook page and inundated local Mayor
Lello Di Bari's inbox with demands he not attend the nuptials.
"I can't avoid this wedding," replied the mayor.
Those closest to the marines declined to take up the
cudgel.
"No comment," Paola Moschetti, girlfriend of marine
Massimiliano Latorre, told ANSA.
"This has nothing to do with the marines' situation,"
Salvatore Girone's brother, Alessandro, told ANSA.
"Making a fuss is pointless. All we care about is for their case
to be resolved soon".
Local law enforcement is holding a meeting Thursday to come
up with a plan in case of protests at the wedding, set to take
place September 3-6.
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