Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier FREED

Hostage in Afghanistan since December 2009 the two French journalists from TV channel France 3 were freed today, wednesday June 29th. The news was announced by prime minister François Fillon, in French parliament, who assured they were in "good health".

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It was 547 days ago, they were kidnaped during doing a documentary about the reconstruction of a road east of Kabul.

After being held for 18 very long months by the Taliban we are not certain about the exact circumstances and agreements of the release but for the moment time is to happiness for families, friends and all journalistic community. We will for sure know more about it in the coming days.

Maybe it will positively lighten again and again the unbelievable number of hostages around the world.
Hard to believe that today we could be captured for doing our job, going on holiday or just living our lives.