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Wed 07 Jul 2009Sarkozy to release details about beheaded monks in Algeria
“I WANT the truth,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday, promising to release classified documents about the kidnapping and beheading of seven Trappist monks in Algeria 13 years ago.
Mr Sarkozy was reacting to testimony by retired French general Francois Buchwalter before an examining magistrate. In the deposition, which was revealed by Le Figaro newspaper and Mediapart webside, Buchwalter said he believed the monks were killed by Algerian security forces, who then mutilated them to prevent the truth being known.
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