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By lefigaro.fr
Updated the 24/09/2014 at 17:59
Issued the 24/09/2014 at 17:41
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According to an unauthenticated video still posted on the Internet by his captors, a group linked to Islamic State, Hervé Gourdel this mountain guide for 55 years was beheaded.
The kidnappers of the French hostage put their threat. Wednesday night, the Soldiers of the Caliphate claimed responsibility for the assassination of Hervé Gourdel, a mountain guide for 55 years. According to a specialized site, the group associated with those who call themselves the Islamic State has posted a video on the Internet amount beheading of French. Images are being authenticated by the French authorities. In the Assembly, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls has however refused to confirm the information.
The video, posted on jihadist websites entitled "Message of blood for the French government," begins with images of Francois Hollande taken during the press conference during which he announced the participation of France in the campaign of strikes against IE in Iraq. It then shows the hostage, kneeling and hands behind his back, surrounded by four armed men and their faces covered. One of the men then reads a message in which he denounced the intervention of "crusaders French criminals" against Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq in particular. The stage resembles the executions of two American journalists kidnapped in Syria, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as the British aid worker David Haines by members of the IU in recent weeks.
Hervé Gourde the father of two children born in Nice, was on holiday in Algeria. The hiker was taken Sunday at a place called Tizi N'koulal, a road junction in the heart of the national park Djurdjuran, a tourism hotspot, became sanctuary armed Islamist groups in the 1990s terrorist group threatened Monday kill the hostages if France did not give up "within 24 hours" to air strikes in Iraq. The ultimatum was rejected Tuesday by President François Hollande.
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Home NEWS International
By lefigaro.fr
Updated the 24/09/2014 at 17:59
Issued the 24/09/2014 at 17:41
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According to an unauthenticated video still posted on the Internet by his captors, a group linked to Islamic State, Hervé Gourdel this mountain guide for 55 years was beheaded.
The kidnappers of the French hostage put their threat. Wednesday night, the Soldiers of the Caliphate claimed responsibility for the assassination of Hervé Gourdel, a mountain guide for 55 years. According to a specialized site, the group associated with those who call themselves the Islamic State has posted a video on the Internet amount beheading of French. Images are being authenticated by the French authorities. In the Assembly, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls has however refused to confirm the information.
The video, posted on jihadist websites entitled "Message of blood for the French government," begins with images of Francois Hollande taken during the press conference during which he announced the participation of France in the campaign of strikes against IE in Iraq. It then shows the hostage, kneeling and hands behind his back, surrounded by four armed men and their faces covered. One of the men then reads a message in which he denounced the intervention of "crusaders French criminals" against Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq in particular. The stage resembles the executions of two American journalists kidnapped in Syria, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as the British aid worker David Haines by members of the IU in recent weeks.
Hervé Gourde the father of two children born in Nice, was on holiday in Algeria. The hiker was taken Sunday at a place called Tizi N'koulal, a road junction in the heart of the national park Djurdjuran, a tourism hotspot, became sanctuary armed Islamist groups in the 1990s terrorist group threatened Monday kill the hostages if France did not give up "within 24 hours" to air strikes in Iraq. The ultimatum was rejected Tuesday by President François Hollande.
More information to come.
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