France and Italy, in the footsteps of Austria and Canada, finance terrorism
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The management of the hostage crisis and the negotiations with the Salafist organization in northern Mali by the Europeans, have occurred in the same way they had been led for the Austrian and Canadian nationals, kidnapped in 2007 and 2008.
- France, Italy and Spain seem to follow the example of Canada and Germany in pandering to terrorist groups by paying ransoms for the release of their hostages in the region.
The kidnappings of European nationals, according to observers, were held at specific times when the terrorist organization finds itself in trouble and wiping failure following pressure from Algerian combined security forces. The start was in March 2003 when the Algerian authorities had declared the fight of residues of terrorism who have refused the charter for peace and civil concord, and at the time when the terrorist Amari Saifi, alias Abderrazak El Para had claimed the kidnapping of 32 European tourists in the region of « El Azzi » in the depths of the Sahara, including 16 Germans 10 Austrians, 4 Swiss, a Swedish and a Dutchman. They had been held for weeks before being released cons of large sums of money (ransom). Which money had been used by terrorists to buy weapons and ammunition for terrorist activities, these weapons and almunition were then seized by the anti-terrorism forces after the arrest of El Para.
The Salafist group has used the same method in recent years, using the kidnapping of European citizens, as the Canadian diplomats and the four European tourists in Niger in order to fund the terrorist organization and also demand the release of his elements arrested in a country of the Sahel in North Africa. In February 2008, British nationals were kidnapped and one of them was killed by the kidnappers as the negociations failed.
Since then European countries have begun to execute the demands of the kidnappers to free their nationals, by paying large ransoms they justified by humanitarian reasons, something that France has recently made to free the hostage Peter Camatte, while Spain is preparing to spend a whopping $ 5 million Euros for the release of its remaining nationals. -
Ennahar / Khaled T.
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