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France pays tribute to aid workers killed in Niger

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August 14, 2020
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Issued on: 14/08/2020 – 15:37

French Prime Minister Jean Castex led tributes to six French aid workers killed by suspected jihadists in Niger as their bodies arrived home in Paris on Friday.

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The four women and two men were killed on Sunday along with their Nigerien guide and driver in a wildlife haven about an hour's drive southeast from the capital Niamey.

The victims worked for French NGO Acted and were aged between 25 and 30.

The national tribute in the VIP section of Paris's Orly airport was closed to the media. Castex was joined by several senior ministers.

"It's important that the nation pays homage to them," said Jérôme Bertin, the head of France Victimes federation.

"Their families want their commitment to be really cited… they were not tourists killed in Niger but young people engaged in helping the people of this country."

The country, one of the poorest in the world, is struggling with incursions by Islamists from both Nigeria to the south and Mali to the west.

Castex said the aid workers were "very likely" the victims of "the same lack of inhumanity" that took place during the November 2015 attacks in Paris.

"It's very likely the same hatred, the same cowardice, the same inhumanity that was at work in Niger and in the Bataclan, even though we're not yet in a position to put a name to the organisation behind this heinous crime, which has all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack," he said.

In Paris, French anti-terror prosecutors said they would investigate charges of "murders with links to a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist association".

There have been no claims of responsibility so far.

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