Held marine Girone requests to return from India

(ANSA) - New Delhi, December 15 - Italian marine Salvatore Girone has presented a requested to return to Italy for the Christmas holidays to the Supreme Court in New Delhi, ANSA sources said Monday. Girone has been held in India since early 2012 over allegations he and fellow marine Massimiliano Latorre shot and killed two Indian fishermen during an anti-piracy mission. Latorre, meanwhile, has requested his permit to be in Italy for treatment, after he suffered a stroke-like attack this year, be extended, the sources said.