Never the North African branch of Al Qaeda (AQIM) had been in possession of so many Western restructuring nor had dared to perpetrate a kidnapping in the center of an African capital as it did on Friday night in Niamey (Niger) . Shortly after ten in the evening, two men of "white skin", with turbans and speaking Arabic among them barged into the restaurant Le Toulousain, according to the correspondent of the French public broadcaster Radio France Internationale.Gunpoint two French guests. "You and you, follow us," threw in French before forcing her into a jeep with registration of Benin, with its headlights off, sailed westward to the border with Mali about 200 km distant from the capital . On the way there was, according to public radio in Niamey, a skirmish with security forces of Niger who tried in vain to cut off the pace.
The head of the National Guard patrol was injured. A point of marrying one of those arrested worked for an NGO in Niamey and was about to get married there. His friend had just arrived in town to attend the wedding, according to the Europe 1 radio. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, it usually takes days to do so, and the French Foreign Ministry said, meanwhile, was "totally mobilized" to clarify the circumstances of his disappearance.
The capture of its two citizens is the second incident suffered by France this week in the Sahel. Bechir Sennon Last Wednesday, a Tunisian, 26, threw a grenade at the U.S. Embassy in Bamako and wounded four people, but was quickly detained. Bashir acknowledged, under questioning by Malian police, who had been trained by AQIM, but in Bamako acted "motu proprio." Al Qaeda found, according to "Le Journal du Mali", which "was not a good terrorist" and expelled him from its ranks, but he wanted to show that it is genuine and undertook alone against the French embassy.
Despite the relative failure of the attack, Paris closed from Thursday all official centers in Bamako, from the French lycée until they consulted through cultural center. Starting tomorrow is going to do the same in Niamey. Nine restructuring in the hands of Al Qaeda After the double kidnapping on Friday evening the terrorist organization is in your hands no fewer than nine restructuring, seven of them French, all captured in Niger, but jobs safe in northern Mali also held captive where the three Catalan captured in November 2009 north of Nouakchott (Mauritania).
The first seven restruc-five French and two SSA-were arrested Sept. 16 in Arlit (northern Niger). All of them worked or were linked to the French nuclear multinational Areva and its subsidiaries operate two uranium mines there. Among the captives contained a woman, Françoise Larriba, 62, ill with cancer and needs medication.
She is the wife of Daniel Larriba, a mining engineer, author of several scientific papers and is also kidnapped. Participated in his abduction, apparently, Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, one of the two main leaders of the Sahel and probable terrorists for the murder of British hostage Edwin Dyer, in May 2009, and Frenchman Michel Germaneau last July.
Two months after the terrorist operation Arlit, AQIM issued a statement demanding that France, in exchange for the release of the restructuring, withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Also invited to Paris to negotiate directly the release of the captives with the founder of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, holed up in a remote area of Pakistan.
His proposal sowed the perplexity in Paris.
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