This file handout photo taken on September 10, 2011 released by the Spanish Ministry of Defence on September 11, 2011 shows a pirate skiff carrying a French hostage Evelyne Colombo before being boarded by the Spanish warship "Galicia" in the Gulf of Aden on September 10, 2011. PHOTO | AFP
The pirates who once ruled the seas off Somalia are little more than a memory now, but while they are forgotten they are not gone.
The trial in Paris of seven men accused of killing a French sailor and kidnapping his wife during the height of Somali piracy in 2011 is a reminder of the deadly terror the pirates once spread.
