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Kidnapped French priest set free, welcomed home

2014-01-01 37 Dailymotion

A French Catholic priest kidnapped in northern Cameroon arrived back in France on Wednesday.<br /> <br />Georges Vandenbeusch's plane landed at a military base near Paris where he and President Francois Hollande addressed the media.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRIEST GEORGES VANDENBEUSCH, SAYING:<br /> <br />"These days seemed terribly long to me and...at the same time...I am thinking about other hostages who stayed very long and to those who are still there, and I can now measure what they are going through or what they have been through."<br /> <br />His November 13th kidnapping was the latest in a series of attacks on French targets in Africa, after France launched a military intervention in Mali to oust al Qaeda Islamists.<br /> <br />Six French nationals are still held hostage in Mali and Syria.<br /> <br />President Hollande said they have not been forgotten.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE SAYING:<br /> <br />"As long as all of our hostages and compatriots are not back, we will

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