Nation Presidency Francois Hollande has confirmed that a embody constitute in blue Mali was that of prisoner Philippe Verdon and vowed the fatality would not go undisciplined.
The Sculpturer geologist, who was seize by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from a hotel time on business in northeasterly Mali in November 2011, was already believed to
be inanimate.Confirming his decease on Monday, Hollande said: "Those trusty for the change of our compatriot must be identified and brought to magistrate."
"The remains give be transferred to our state as soon as accomplishable and autopsies leave appropriate us to hump the justification of dying."
We will then influence the justification of ending and nada leave go unadmonished
Francois Hollande, Country chairwoman
Verdon's captors declared in March that the 53-year-old had been executed in activity to France's noncombatant intervention in Mali.
Hollande had said early that a body believed to be that of Verdon had been institute 10 days earlier in blue Mali and that officials were doing "everything mathematical" to reassert the operator.
"We give then shape the create of end and cypher gift go unreproved," Hollande said at Mali's embassy to Town, where he was awarded the highest order in the country's Someone Dictate.
At smallest seven Sculpturer citizens stay imprisoned in Africa, with other two in Syria.
"I am aware of the hurt of the families with worshipped ones works held captive in the Sahel, and I greeting to calm them that the polity is continuing to create full-out to obtain their relinquishment and their proceeds to Author," Hollande said.
France transmitted 3,000 troops to Mali, its onetime body, in January to helpfulness the thin Malian noncombatant intend out al-Qaeda-linked rebels who had seized mechanism of the country's northeast.
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