The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the kidnapping of two French Catholic clerics on Sunday.

The victims are used to working in the ill-fated streets of poor countries where misery leads to violence.

It was not the first time that these two religious were attacked. 

Two days after the kidnapping in Haiti of seven Catholic religious, including two French, the Paris prosecutor's office decided to open an investigation for "kidnapping and kidnapping in an organized gang".

The kidnappers demand a million euros in ransom to give them back their freedom.

The victims, Michel Briand and Agnès Bordeau, are unfortunately not at their first attack. 

Already victim of an armed robbery

A priest with a big heart and an adventurous sister.

Michel Briand and Agnès Bordeau are used to violence, a daily life in poor countries.

Sister Agnès has already been kidnapped during an armed attack in her convent in Guatemala.

Three francs six sous were stolen from him, with a gun pointed at her for fifteen minutes.

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During this episode "she was not afraid", she admits afterwards.

She assures him: her only concern was to pray for disadvantaged families and for her three young aggressors.

"The priest with a big heart"

Father Michel Briand is nicknamed "the priest of the poor".

For more than thirty years, he has worked in the Haitian streets.

Flawless devotion.

And he, too, has already been targeted.

In 2015, small robbers shoot him twice in the stomach to grab his wallet, as he leaves a bank in Port-au-Prince.

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Treated in Brittany, he stamps his feet and returns as soon as possible to Haiti, where this adventurer with a big heart likes to drag his white beard and his long hair which earned him the nickname of Father Jesus.