Crew of French luxury yacht freed by pirates

April 12, 2008

France's defence minister warned Saturday Paris would not tolerate extortion attempts, after French military secured the release of 30 hostages from a luxury boat off Somalia and seized half a dozen pirates. The Ponant yacht, a 32-cabin vessel, was hijacked on April 4 and has spent the past week anchored off Puntland, a breakaway northern region of Somalia. Raw images