French priest Georges Vandenbeusch, kidnapped by gunmen in northern Cameroon, was able to alert the French authorities ahead of his capture.<br /><br /> Gerard Daucourt, the Bishop of Nanterre Diocese, told journalists what he understood had taken place: “The kidnappers, about 15 of them, arrived at night without a car. They first searched the house of the nuns which was a bit further, looking for money, but there wasn’t any.” <br /><br /> Daucourt continued “maybe they knocked at the door, but in any case they wanted to get in – and Father Georges noticed that and had the time to call the embassy over the phone.” <br /><br /> 42 year old Vandenbeusch left his parish in a Parisian suburb to work in a volatile region near Cameroon’s border with Nigeria. The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, is known to operate in the area.<br /><br /> The French authorities said they had warned its citizens to leave what it considers a high-risk region, but that the priest insisted on staying to complete his mission.<br /><br /> Boko Haram kidnapped a French family in the same area nine months ago.
