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Story: (CNN) -- Five Somali men were convicted in the Netherlands of plotting a hijack at sea and sentenced to five years in prison, CNN affiliate RTL reported Thursday. 

The trial of the five, said to be the first trial of pirates in Europe in modern times, opened in Rotterdam District Court May 25. 

The men were captured by the Danish navy in January 2009 in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, after a cargo ship with a Dutch Antilles flag was attacked, said Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Netherlands National Prosecutor's Office. 

"The ship of the pirates was destroyed by the Danish navy, and the pirates were captured and handed to the Dutch authorities," he said. 

The pirates are Ahmed Yusuf Farah, 25, Jama Mohamed Samatar, 45, Abdirisaq Abdulahi Hirsi, 33, Sayid Ali Garaar, 39, and Osman Musse Farah, 32, de Bruin said. 

They had faced a maximum sentence of nine to 12 years, he added. 

Another suspected Somali pirate is awaiting sentencing in the United States, where he pleaded guilty in May to hijacking and kidnapping. 

Prosecutors say Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse led an attack on a U.S.-flagged vessel, the Maersk Alabama, off the coast of Africa last year. 

He pleaded guilty May 19 in a New York federal court to felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, kidnapping and hostage taking for his role in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean on April 8, 2009. 

Muse faces a maximum sentence of almost 34 years behind bars when he is sentenced October 19. 

Question: Who reported something?
Answer:CNN affiliate

Question: What happened in 2009?
Answer:men were captured

Question: by whom?
Answer:Danish navy

Question: Did they go to court?
Answer:yes

Question: When?
Answer:May 25.

Question: Where?
Answer:Europe

Question: What were they being tried as?
Answer:pirates

Question: How many were there?
Answer:Five

Question: Were they innocent?
Answer:no

Question: Who found them guilty?
Answer:Dutch authorities

Question: How much time could they have gotten?
Answer:nine to 12 years

Question: What did they get?
Answer:five years in prison

Question: Who caught them?
Answer:Danish navy

Question: What had they done?
Answer:plotting a hijack at sea

Question: Did this happen in America?
Answer:no

Question: Where then?
Answer:Gulf of Aden, off Somalia

Question: What did happen in the U.S.?
Answer:another pirate is awaiting sentencing in United States

Question: What happens in the fall?
Answer:Muse will be sentenced

Question: On what day?
Answer:
October 19