Sébastien Chadaud-Pétronin once again came on Sunday to defend his mother's choice.

The former French hostage Sophie Pétronin, whose return to Mali had aroused indignation, is not taking "the slightest risk", thus assured her son.

According to him, the septuagenarian lives in the country's capital, far from conflict zones.

"I do not feel that she is taking the slightest risk," said Sébastien Chadaud-Pétronin on Swiss television RTS, who had accompanied his mother back to Mali in March.

“She lives in Bamako like 8,000 French people, plus a whole security protocol.

She is discreet, she does not bother anyone, she does not leave her apartment, ”he insisted, asking that we“ let her end her life as she wants to do ”.

An “irresponsible” return for the government

"If she had returned to the red zone, to the war zone, I myself would have participated in these criticisms, because I would not have understood, and I would have even found it shocking and indecent", pleaded Sébastien Chadaud. -Pétronin, explaining that his mother was unhappy in Switzerland and wanted to find her adopted daughter in Bamako.

The French aid worker was kidnapped in December 2016 in Gao, in the north of the country, and detained by a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

In October 2020, without real consultation with Paris, the new Malian regime decided to release several dozen prisoners arrested during anti-jihadist operations, against four hostages, including the French Sophie Pétronin.

The latter returned to settle in the country last March, a return that French government spokesman Gabriel Attal described as "irresponsible".

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