The Paris prosecutor confirmed Thursday, February 3, Vincent Delory, one of two French hostages kidnapped in Niger and found dead in January, has been killed in a fire and not by gunfire. The circumstances of the death of a young man, so far unclear, could be determined by expert medical technology and ballistics.
"The expertise showed that his death was not associated with wounds caused by firearms but was put on the account of thermal effects generated by a fire," the prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said in a statement. Toxics in the car in which he was to be the cause of this fatal fire. The body of Anthony and Vincent Delory Léocour, the upper bound, were discovered after a violent clash between the kidnappers in Mali, who were also prisoners of the Nigerian police, special forces and French.
Investigators said four vehicles were involved, two vehicles full of kidnappers who have burned. The expert determined that Vincent had been Delory "suffered no direct fire," said the prosecutor. "A .30 caliber bullet found in his buttock was not achieved after rebounds," he says, without specifying the nature of the weapon used.
For the prosecution, "the wound was not caused hemorrhagic this ammunition may have been the cause of death and reached Vincent Delory at a time when it was either already dead or at an advanced state of its agony. " "This ammunition was allegedly fired by a French weapon, without knowledge, at present, the ability to AQIM to dispose of these munitions," notes the floor.
As for Antoine de Léocour it was "the victim of a shooting at close range, even after moving, which is the direct and sole cause of death." Nicolas Sarkozy had for his part said Jan. 24 that "our two compatriots were not killed, they were brutally murdered." "Words have meaning," added the head of state.
AQIM had reinforced doubts about the exact circumstances of the death of the hostages saying, Jan. 15, that one of them had been killed by air strikes of the French forces while attempting to free them. AQIM was confirmed to have executed one hostage. Members of terrorism prosecutor met Thursday in Lille, the families of two young men, whose funeral was held Jan.
17 in the presence of Mr Sarkozy. The family of Vincent Delory said Tuesday that it intended a civil, in order to know the exact circumstances of death, because "for now, it remains ambiguous," explained her lawyer, Frank Berton. 
"The expertise showed that his death was not associated with wounds caused by firearms but was put on the account of thermal effects generated by a fire," the prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said in a statement. Toxics in the car in which he was to be the cause of this fatal fire. The body of Anthony and Vincent Delory Léocour, the upper bound, were discovered after a violent clash between the kidnappers in Mali, who were also prisoners of the Nigerian police, special forces and French.
Investigators said four vehicles were involved, two vehicles full of kidnappers who have burned. The expert determined that Vincent had been Delory "suffered no direct fire," said the prosecutor. "A .30 caliber bullet found in his buttock was not achieved after rebounds," he says, without specifying the nature of the weapon used.
For the prosecution, "the wound was not caused hemorrhagic this ammunition may have been the cause of death and reached Vincent Delory at a time when it was either already dead or at an advanced state of its agony. " "This ammunition was allegedly fired by a French weapon, without knowledge, at present, the ability to AQIM to dispose of these munitions," notes the floor.
As for Antoine de Léocour it was "the victim of a shooting at close range, even after moving, which is the direct and sole cause of death." Nicolas Sarkozy had for his part said Jan. 24 that "our two compatriots were not killed, they were brutally murdered." "Words have meaning," added the head of state.
AQIM had reinforced doubts about the exact circumstances of the death of the hostages saying, Jan. 15, that one of them had been killed by air strikes of the French forces while attempting to free them. AQIM was confirmed to have executed one hostage. Members of terrorism prosecutor met Thursday in Lille, the families of two young men, whose funeral was held Jan.
17 in the presence of Mr Sarkozy. The family of Vincent Delory said Tuesday that it intended a civil, in order to know the exact circumstances of death, because "for now, it remains ambiguous," explained her lawyer, Frank Berton.
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