Fabius : "Murder a journalist is always commit a double crime "
Colleagues Ghislaine Dupont , 57, and Claude Verlon , 55, were also collected on Tuesday morning , observing a minute of silence at the premises of several companies .
A minute of silence was observed at the National Assembly, Tuesday, November 5 , in honor of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon , two journalists from Radio France International (RFI) killed Saturday in Mali. "Murder a journalist is always commit a double crime ," said the Foreign Minister , Laurent Fabius , after the moment of silence at the opening of the session of questions to the government .
" We must now catch [ the killers ] and punish " Has he said , stressing the determination of France to find the killers of two French journalists shot dead shortly after being abducted by armed men Kidal Tuareg stronghold and their rebellion.
Colleagues Ghislaine Dupont , 57, and Claude Verlon , 55, were also collected on Tuesday morning , observing a minute of silence at the premises of several companies .
RETURNEES BODY
Early in the morning , the plane carrying the bodies of two journalists landed at Paris Roissy airport. Flight AF 3873 had left Bamako late Monday night with coffins on board.
Francois Hollande , along with Laurent Fabius and the Minister of Culture and Communication , Aurélie Filippetti , was present at the airport, where the families of the victims and twenty colleagues arrived shortly before 6:00 . The Elysee had said Monday that the head of state wanted to be with them and " help them in their grief ."
A delegation of RFI conducted by Marie- Christine Zaragoza , President of France World Media umbrella of " Radio World " traveling in the plane that repatriated the body Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon , two passionate and experienced connoisseurs of Africa. Reeling three days after the murder , convicted on all sides, their colleagues RFI gather in mid- day in the premises of the station , in Issy -les- Moulineaux , near Paris . A public tribute is scheduled for Wednesday .
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BRACE TO FRENCH MILITARY KIDAL
The Malian government and French authorities said Monday their determination to find the perpetrators of the murders of two special envoys RFI qualified by Paris of killings in cold blood by "terrorists ."
One hundred and fifty French soldiers were redeployed to reinforce Monday night in Kidal , announced the head of French diplomacy. " Instruction was given as 150 soldiers leave southern Mali to get to Kidal , which was made last night ," said Fabius Tuesday , told RFI .
Malian gendarmerie for its part announced Monday a dozen suspects were arrested , that Paris has not confirmed , speaking only of " ongoing operations ."
The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation for " kidnapping followed by death in relation to a terrorist enterprise" , and French police have inverstigation participate in operations in Mali.
NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Three journalists' unions , the National Union of Journalists ( SNJ ) , the National Union of Journalists - General Confederation of Labour ( SNJ- CGT) and the French Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CFDT- journalists) have meanwhile called Tuesday "on urgent formation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry " into the killing of their colleagues RFI .
"Once the emotion and indignation expressed forcefully by all after the announcement of the tragic death of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon , many questions remain , in our view , no answer , write the authors of the letter sent to President of the Senate Jean -Pierre Bel ( PS) . Serval Why force in Mali has not protected and refused to move and is it true that military aircraft ( helicopter or airplane) flew over the area without finding their mark What are the instigators of the murder of two employees of RFI How could they be kidnapped in Kidal , no immediate reaction forces present ? "
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