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| French judge charges aid worker convicted in Chad |
| 2008-01-11 |
| A French judge on Wednesday charged one of the six aid workers convicted in Chad for attempted child kidnapping with conspiring to allow illegal residents into France, his wife said. Alain Peligat, considered the logistics chief of the Zoe's Ark charity, faces up to 10 years in jail and 750,000 euros (one million dollars) in fines if convicted of the crime, said his wife Christine Peligat. Two other aid workers -- nurse Nadia Merimi and firefighter Dominique Aubry -- were not formally charged and were still being considered as witnesses in the case, their lawyers said. A judge was to decide whether to press charges against charity head Eric Breteau and two others on Thursday, a judicial source said. |
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