A technical team from the FBI arrived in Cuba to do an independent investigation after a deadly Feb. 25 firefight between Cuban soldiers and 10 people on a Florida-registered speedboat in Cuban waters.
According to the U.S. Embassy in Havana, the FBI team arrived this week after 10 Cuban exiles provoked a shootout with Cuba’s border patrol. The shootout left four dead and six wounded, all occupants of the speedboat.
Cuba stated March 5 that a fifth person injured in the incident died in the hospital.
Cuban authorities said the people on the speedboat opened fire on the Cuban soldiers as they approached. Cuba accused the people on the speedboat of planning a terrorist attack, and Cuban prosecutors filed terrorism charges against the men detained in the Feb. 25 incident. Those charges come with a maximum sentence of 30 years and the possibility of the death penalty….