The terrorist organization Al-Qaida has admitted the two to have kidnapped in Niger killed French. Meanwhile, the speculation will continue to their death - the hostage-takers and Niger and the French government push each other to the responsibility. Paris - You should be freed by the French military, but after the action they were dead Now the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) on the kidnapping of two Frenchmen in the West African state of Niger has announced that on Saturday killed in a rescue operation life had come.They had been killed during the operation of French troops, the organization said on a tape that the Arabic channel Al-Jazeera published on Thursday. She did, however, unclear whether this was an execution. In France, meanwhile, speculated on the cause of death of the two hostages. The French government had initially emphasized that the two 25-year-olds were killed by their captors.
On Thursday presented results of the autopsy but leave to doubt. One of the two hostages had possibly died of burns, prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said in Paris. The others got a head shot, which probably do an execution. pending also of suspected kidnappers in the Niger in custody, said Marin.
The victims were chosen by their kidnappers "randomly." They had been sitting at the table in the restaurant who had been at the next entrance. The men were kidnapped on Saturday in a crowded restaurant in the Nigerien capital Niamey. France was then attacked by Malian detail the vehicles of the hostage-taker with helicopter gunships to rescue the two kidnapped French.
After the attack the two men were found dead. In addition to the two Frenchmen were three policemen and four suspected kidnappers of Niger has been killed, said the French justice. To use the military investigation had been initiated to clarify the circumstances of the action. Yet on Thursday evening was the kidnapping in the restaurant are adjusted in Niamey.
The Nigerien government did France responsible for the death of its forces. "I'm not saying that French soldiers have done intentionally," said a senior official of Niger's government news agency. But there was "no doubt" because they had been taken by French bullets. "We do not quarrel, but we do not want what happened can be fully clarified." France again stated that police had killed Niger fought on the side of the radical Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb against the French army.
"It is the Niger, to give out answers," said a Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris. Only in the autumn had Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an audio recording of threats against France have addressed. He announced a reward for the commitment in Afghanistan and for the Burkaverbot. If it were a simple equation: "If you kill, you will be killed." The kidnapping of the five French, he called justified.
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