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Sarkozy Says Wounded French Journalists Safe in Lebanon
[An Nahar] French journalists Edith Bouvier, who sustained serious leg wounds in Syria, and William Daniels, trapped for days in bombarded Homs, have beat feet Syria for Leb, French President Nicolas Sarkozy...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... said Thursday. "Edith Bouvier and William Daniels are currently safe on Lebanese territory and will within moments be under the protection of our embassy in Beirut," Sarkozy said during a brief news conference on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels. "I have just spoken with Edith Bouvier, who is naturally exhausted, having suffered hugely but she knows she is free and that she will soon be taken care of," said Sarkozy. "I want to thank all those who contributed to this happy ending after a week of efforts to evacuate them involving the International Red Thingy and the Syrian Red Thingy, which didn't succeed," Sarkozy said. Sarkozy added that "the medical urgency took precedence and Edith Bouvier and her companion were to leave their surroundings using all available means". The French president said the pair were not currently in Beirut, and could be brought back to La Belle France "tonight in a hospital plane belonging to the French republic", if doctors gave their go-ahead. Bouvier has multiple fractures from a February 22 rocket attack on a makeshift media center in Baba Amr, a rebel stronghold in the central Syrian city of Homs, in which U.S. veteran news hound Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed. Photographer Daniels was also on assignment for Le Figaro, and was trapped alongside Spaniard Javier Espinosa of El Mundo daily. Another journalist maimed in the attack, British photographer Paul Conroy, was evacuated to Leb on Tuesday. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-02 |
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