Fake Movie Pitch Captures Somali Pirate

Notorious Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan was detained in Belgium after being lured in by authorities with the possible advising job for a fake film about high-seas crime. Hassan has been linked to the 2008 hijacking of of a Saudi oil tanker and Ukrainian transport ship. C’mon Hassan, you thought they were going to make another Somali pirate movie? This isn’t the Fast and the Furious franchise.

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