The government deplored, this Wednesday, “the irresponsibility” of the return of the former hostage Sophie Pétronin in Mali, where she had been held hostage several years before being released in October 2020, declared Gabriel Attal, the door. – government speech at the end of the Council of Ministers.
Gabriel Attal denounced the “irresponsibility” of the former humanitarian vis-à-vis “his security” but also vis-à-vis “the security of our soldiers”.
The Secretary of State thus confirmed the return to Mali, announced by several French media, of the septuagenarian who had been kidnapped in December 2016 in Gao before being released in October 2020. A search notice would have been broadcast on Friday evening by the general direction of the Malian gendarmerie, after it was reported in the region of Sikasso, in the south of the country.