Italy has decided to enter into international arbitration with India over the case of two Italian marines accused in the 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen.
The foreign ministry said Friday the decision was taken after three years of negotiations with India and the "impossibility of arriving at a solution to the controversy."
The two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are accused of killing the two fishermen while assigned to anti-piracy duty aboard an Italian cargo ship off India's southwestern coast.
India is holding the marines without charge and insists it has jurisdiction in the case.
Italy maintains the shooting occurred in international waters, that the fishermen were mistaken for pirates and that the case should be heard in an Italian court.
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