Dubai / Berlin - Fearful of pirate attacks in Gulf of Aden: The 246 passengers and part of the crew of the cruise ship MS Columbus in Yemen go overboard, then flown to a five-star hotel in Dubai (EXPRESS.DE reported >).
Only when the ship is back in safe waters, sweep the tourists zurück.Grund for the evacuation: The Federal Government had rejected the request of the shipowner to escort in Pirate territory.
Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) holds the decision right. For EXPRESS Vice said the union group: "It is not the case that the problem of piracy in the Horn of Africa, known only since yesterday. For good reasons, from the Foreign Office travel warnings. Then they will just change his itinerary and did not say , the taxpayer must pay for the safety of passengers. "
Finally, no one would come up with the idea of the Bundeswehr in private escort trekking holiday across Sudan to apply for.
An entirely different set of facts lying before, however, if humanitarian workers are working in a dangerous area. Bosbach: "Then it is clear that they are protected by the state. But this is strictly distinguished from a vacation and pleasure trip."
