Prime Minister Jean Castex chaired, Friday at Orly airport, a national tribute ceremony on the occasion of the repatriation of the bodies of six French humanitarian workers killed in Niger on Sunday. In front of the relatives of the victims, the head of government assured: "the whole of France is in mourning for your children".
"The victims had come to do good, and they encountered evil," he said as the six young French people, who worked for the NGO Acted, had gone on an excursion to observe the giraffes in the region. from Kouré, 60 kilometers south-east of the capital Niamey. "In front of these six aligned coffins, I want above all to express the sorrow, the pain, the incomprehension, the anger of all the French", added the head of government, while evoking in front of the families of the victims "of the children of whom you can to be proud, of which the whole of France can be proud ".
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