[Maghrebia] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Sunday (July 11th) vowed to execute 78-year-old French hostage Michel Germaneau within 15 days, Journal Tahalil reported. AQIM demanded a ransom and the release of Salafist prisoners in return for Germaneau's life. "France will have sentenced its citizen to death" if it fails to comply, AQIM said in a statement published on Islamist websites. The elderly hostage, a retired petrol sector engineer for an Algerian company, was abducted April 21st in northern Niger along with his Algerian driver Abidine Ouaghi. The Algerian was later released in Mali.
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