CHAD - FRANCE
Zoe's Ark members on way home
Friday, December 28, 2007
Six French charity workers jailed in Chad for attempting to kidnap 103 children left the country on Friday to return home to France, where they are to serve out their sentences.
Friday, December 28, 2007
French convicted of kidnap in Chad set to fly home
By AFP
Six French charity workers jailed in Chad for attempting to kidnap 103 children left the country on Friday to return home to France, where they were to serve out their sentences.
They were led in handcuffs to a plane after being taken to the airport from their cells in the capital Ndjamena.
The members of L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) charity were convicted on Wednesday of attempted child abduction for having tried to fly 103 children out of Chad to France, claiming they were war orphans from the Sudanese region of Darfur which borders eastern Chad.
They were sentenced to eight years' hard labour.
They were led in handcuffs to a plane after being taken to the airport from their cells in the capital Ndjamena.
The members of L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) charity were convicted on Wednesday of attempted child abduction for having tried to fly 103 children out of Chad to France, claiming they were war orphans from the Sudanese region of Darfur which borders eastern Chad.
They were sentenced to eight years' hard labour.
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