Sunday, January 23, 2011

Images of the French operation in Niger declassified

The defense minister, Alain Juppe, decided Friday, January 21, to declassify the documents of the military operation to free two French hostages led French abducted and killed in Niger in the Sahel. The Minister has followed the positive opinion issued by the Advisory Committee of the secrecy of national defense.

The Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin, who directs the preliminary investigation into the kidnapping of Delory Vincent and Antoine de Léocour January 7 in Niger and died the next day in Mali, had requested the declassification of certain documents related intervention. Among these documents are included photographs and videos of the intervention.

In a statement posted last Friday, Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), who had claimed to have kidnapped in Niger by Antoine de Léocour Delory and Vincent, had assured him that he had been killed by the French strikes. After the assault, two French, aged 25 and removed at a restaurant in Niamey, were found dead.

If the initial results of the autopsy, revealed on January 13, helped foster a view of the execution of Antoine Léocour, killed by a bullet "to end related," the circumstances of the death of his comrade remain increasingly blurred.

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