Mali: a Swiss missionary, held hostage, was killed by her captors
Aerial view of Timbuktu, Mali, January 16, 2020 (illustrative image).
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Another hostage in Mali, a Swiss woman, was killed by her captors.
Bern officially announced it on Friday, October 9, in the evening.
It is not known for the moment if his death has a link with the release of Soumaila Cissé and Sophie Pétronin.
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The Swiss authorities have not communicated the name of the hostage who was allegedly killed, reports
our correspondent in Geneva,
Jérémie Lanche
.
She is a 40-year-old missionary.
Originally from Basel, she was kidnapped four years ago in Timbuktu by a group linked to al-Qaeda.
She had already been kidnapped briefly in 2012, when the city fell to jihadists.
She had appeared in a video of her captors in 2017, visibly weakened and emaciated.
► To read also: Release of Sophie Pétronin and Soumaïla Cissé: what has happened in recent days?
His death was a month ago
It was
Sophie Pétronin
who informed the French authorities of her death.
It would go back a month.
The head of Swiss diplomacy, Ignazio Cassis, condemns a “
cruel act
” and expresses his “
most sincere condolences to the relatives of the victim
”.
The Federal Councilor specifies that the victim "
would have been killed by the kidnappers of the Islamist terrorist organization Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslim
".
Switzerland is now seeking to know the exact circumstances of the death of its national, as well as the whereabouts of her body
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