MSF hostages

MSF hostages

Release of doctors of Doctors Without Borders taken hostage by the Somali National Movement while they were in the Tug Wajale refugee camp at the Somali-Ethiopian border. Arrival of night doctors in Orly. Airplane descent of hostages in bright color suits greeting from the cutting ladder - flashes of photographers- embraced - among the group of people who came to the foot of the plane the discreet presence of Jacques CHIRAC, Prime Minister and Claude MALHURET, Secretary of State for Human Rights. In the pavilion of honour of the airport family photo of the liberated ert press conference: testimony of the doctors and especially of Françoise LEDUC; RONY Brauman near MSF among his comrades; intervention of Claude MALHURET "the hostage taking is a terrifying act; the publicity given to the hostage-takers must cost them, not pay them".

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File : MSF Foundation

Publication date : 8 February 1987