Mali Journalists Deaths Arrests
November 6, 2013 by staff
Mali Journalists Deaths Arrests, At least 12 suspects have been arrested over the killing of two French journalists in Mali, police say.
The men were killed in Kidal recently after being abducted by armed men, according to French and Malian officials.
“A dozen suspects have been arrested since the murder of two Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalists,” a police source in Gao, the main city in northern Mali, was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both working for French radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI), were seized on Saturday afternoon by armed men after they had finished an interview with a Tuareg rebel leader, according to a city official.
“A few minutes after a pursuit began for the abductors of the two French, we were informed that their bodies were found riddled with bullets outside the town,” said Paul-Marie Sidibe, prefect of the town of Tinzawaten, who is based in Kidal.
A senior Tuareg official also said the bodies had been recovered outside Kidal. A Mali security source said the journalists were killed about 12km outside the town.
The executions occurred as the government was trying to talk with rebels in the north to prevent a wider conflict in the country.
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