Massimiliano Latorre, one of two Italian marines facing trial in India for the killing of two fisherman, has posted to Facebook video footage of his arrest four years ago to the soundtrack of Italian rocker Vasco Rossi's smash hit "Give a Sense to my Life".
"This is what happened on 19 February 2012 when they took us to jail," Latorre wrote in a Facebook post on Friday accompanying the video.
The shooting dead in February 2012 of the fisherman by Latorre and Girone off the southern state of Kerala as they guarded an Italian oil tanker sparked a diplomatic incident and the case has strained relations between the two countries.
In August, India's Supreme Court allowed Latorre to return home for medical treatment after he suffered a stroke in India, where he had been detained since his arrest. The court has extended his leave until 30 April.
Girone has not been allowed to leave India and is staying at the Italian embassy in New Delhi.
A long series of delays and fears the marines could be executed if convicted of murder prompted Italy to take the case to international arbitration in June last year.
The Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled in August that India had no jurisdiction in the case and referred it to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The Hague tribunal last month the arbitration verdict in the case would not come before August 2018. Meanwhile Italy wants the two marines to be allowed to stay in Italy until the verdict.
