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Farc says it is holding French journalist Romeo Langlois | Farc says it is holding French journalist Romeo Langlois |
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The Colombian rebel group Farc has said it is holding a French journalist who disappeared a week ago. | The Colombian rebel group Farc has said it is holding a French journalist who disappeared a week ago. |
The ruling secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said Romeo Langlois had been wearing "military clothing of the regular army" when security forces he was accompanying on a counter-narcotics mission were attacked by Farc fighters. | The ruling secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said Romeo Langlois had been wearing "military clothing of the regular army" when security forces he was accompanying on a counter-narcotics mission were attacked by Farc fighters. |
Accompanying the military on such missions served the government's propaganda purposes, it said. It was holding Langlois "in the quality of a prisoner of war". | Accompanying the military on such missions served the government's propaganda purposes, it said. It was holding Langlois "in the quality of a prisoner of war". |
"We think the minimum that can be expected for the recuperation of [Langlois's] full mobility is the opening of a national and international debate over the freedom to inform," Farc said in a statement. "Journalists that Colombia's armed forces take with it on military operations don't adhere to the impartial purpose of informing about reality." | |
Colombia's defence minister has said that during the attack Langlois removed the helmet and flak jacket the army had provided and identified himself as a civilian. | |
Farc warned Colombia's military not to try to rescue Langlois, referring to previous instances when it has killed "prisoners" during perceived government rescue attempts. | Farc warned Colombia's military not to try to rescue Langlois, referring to previous instances when it has killed "prisoners" during perceived government rescue attempts. |
In a video posted online on Sunday by an independent journalist, Karl Penhaul, a man who identified himself as a rebel squadron leader said Langlois was lightly wounded in an arm but was out of danger. | |
The man said he was from the 15th Front of the Farc and that it captured Langlois in a seven-hour firefight. He said that now the rebels knew Langlois was a journalist "we hope to quickly overcome this impasse". | |
Langlois, 35, was on assignment for France 24 television when he went missing. He has also worked for the newspaper Le Figaro, and has been in Colombia for more than a decade. |
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