Colombia’s Farc guerrilla group has decided to free a French reporter they kidnapped two weeks ago, although they have not given a date for his release, a Red Cross official said on Sunday, citing a statement from the rebels.
Heavily armed members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnapped Romeo Langlois, a reporter for France 24, during a firefight with troops carrying out an anti-drug raid in Caqueta, in the south.
“The ICRC has received a statement from the Farc in which they say they have decided to release Romeo Langlois,” ICRC official Daniel Munoz said. The statement did not mention a date for Langlois’s release, he said, but the Farc has called for the mediation of a committee formed by an envoy from the French government, the ICRC and activist and former senator Piedad Cordoba. – (Reuters)