The recollection of the nation. Prime Minister Jean Castex will chair a national ceremony at Orly airport on Friday to pay tribute to the six French humanitarian workers killed on Sunday in Niger, we learned from Matignon on Wednesday.
The ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. in the presence of families on the occasion of the repatriation of the bodies of these six French people, who worked for the NGO Acted. They were killed on Sunday with their Nigerien driver and guide by armed men during an excursion to the Kouré giraffe reserve, 60 km south-east of the capital Niamey.
Monday, Jean Castex had promised that this “heinous crime” will not go “unpunished”, while Emmanuel Macron announced that he had “decided to strengthen security measures for our nationals in the region”. After the attack, the Quai d'Orsay decided to place the whole country in the red zone, ie “formally not recommended”. Only the capital, Niamey, where the victims were based, escapes this classification.
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