“Yes, Salvatore caught that infection,” Michele Girone confirmed, adding, “He’s a bit better now”. Girone and another Italian marine, Massimiliano latorre, are facing charges of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 off the Kerala coast.Meanwhile, the Italian Defence Ministry said Girone’s condition was not a cause for concern but it has dispatched two military doctors to India, where the marine’s wife and children are to join him.
