Those close to an elderly French woman speak of her kidnapping in Kenya on Saturday by suspected Somali militants.<br/> Her boyfriend said he contemplated fighting the six armed men as they took the wheelchair-bound 66-year-old from this home on an island off Kenya's northern coast.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) PARTNER OF KIDNAPPED FRENCH WOMAN, JOHN LEPAPA, SAYING:<br/> "This girl beseeched me to tell me stop because I wanted to cut one of them who was near to me and he is the one who shot at me when I was passing through this window (points)."<br/> Her landlord said his staff pleaded with the gunmen to let her go.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) LANDLORD OF ABDUCTED FRENCH WOMAN, ABDALLAH FADHIL, SAYING:<br/> "She (kidnapped woman) is a very good lady but unfortunately she is very sick. She's suffering from paralysis, she cannot move but she is a very brave lady, she still wants to live."<br/> Somali pirates said the woman is being held in Somalia.<br/> In September, gunmen killed a British tourist and kidnapped his wife from a nearby resort.<br/> Lindsey Parietti, Reuters
