Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Al Qaeda calls for 90 million to free French hostages in Niger

Gao (Mali), -. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed that France should "at least 90 million euros" as ransom to free the abducted four French citizens in September last year in Niger, according to advance the French news agency AFP Nigerian sources close to the negotiations. "The kidnappers claimed at least 90 million for access to free four French hostages and demanding the release of AQIM terrorists arrested and detained in various French cities, as declared by the same sources of trading.

Seven people (five French, one of Togo and Madagascar) have been kidnapped in the middle of last September in northern Niger for AQIM. Three were released late last February, the French, Françoise Larriba, a Malagasy, Jean-Claude Rakotorilalao and Togo, Alex Ahonen-Kodjo in a region at an undetermined point near the border with Algeria, Mali and Niger .

The French still held by Al Qaeda are: Daniel Larriba, director of the French nuclear group Areva, his wife Françoise Larriba, Thierry Dol, Pierre Legrand and Marc Ferret.

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