Three French nationals kidnapped in Haiti
- From: "Jules" <joolio11@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:45:17 -0500
27 Jan 2006 21:19:12 GMT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan 27 (Reuters) - An 84-year-old nun and two other
French citizens on a humanitarian mission to Haiti were kidnapped near a
dangerous slum in the capital, police said on Friday.
Inspector-General Michael Lucius, head of Haiti's judicial police, said the
missionaries were abducted at gunpoint on Tuesday on a notoriously dangerous
road near Cite Soleil, a shantytown on the north side of Port-au-Prince, and
may have been set up by their Haitian driver.
"As a Haitian, I think the driver knew there was almost a 100 percent chance
someone would be kidnapped in that area," Lucius said. "Why did he choose
it?"
Kidnapping for ransom is part of a plague of violence engulfing the poor
Caribbean nation as it edges closer to its first election since former
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced from office in February 2004.
The vote is set for Feb. 7.
More than 1,900 people have been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince in the last 10
months, police sources say.
Police said the abductors of the French missionaries demanded a ransom.
French officials in Port-au-Prince were involved in trying to secure the
hostages' release, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris said.
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