This handout photo taken and released on May 11, 2019 by the office of Burkina Faso's President shows Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Alpha Barry (R) addressing journalists as he stands next to former French hostages Patrick Picque (L) and Laurent Lassimouillas (3L) and the South Korean hostage (2L), who has not yet been identified, following a meeting with Burkina Faso's President at Kosyam Presidential Palace in Ouagadougou. The French army has released four hostages - two French, one American and one South Korean - during an intervention in northern Burkina Faso in which two French soldiers were killed, the French presidency announced on May 10, 2019. The two Frenchmen, Patrick Picque and Laurent Lassimouillas, had been kidnapped last May 1, in Benin, a country previously spared by insecurity in West Africa. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT OFFICE / AHMED OUOBA" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
/ AFP / BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT OFFICE / Ahmed OUOBA / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT OFFICE / AHMED OUOBA" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Les deux ex-otages français et l’ex-otage coréenne sont arrivés vers 08H50 GMT au Palais présidentiel de Kosyam à Ouagadougou où ils doivent s’entretenir avec le président burkinabè Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP.
Visages fermés et l’air fatigué, les ex-otages ont été accueillis par un conseiller de la présidence. Ils sont entrés dans le palais sans faire de signe ni de déclarations à la trentaine de journalistes présents. L’ex-otage américaine libérée en même temps que les trois autres ex-otages n’était pas présente.
