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Colombia's Uribe Accuses Freed French Reporter Of 'Identifying With Terrorism'
CARACOL RADIO (Colombia)
FLORENCIA - Among the first to react to the release Wednesday of Roméo Langlois, a French journalist who was captured in late April by members of Colombias FARC, was one of the guerilla armys old nemeses: ex-President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010). But rather than celebrate the handover, Uribe used the opportunity to question what Langlois had been doing in Colombia in the first place.
Addressing the reporter via Twitter, Uribe wrote: Langlois: journalistic curiosity is one thing, identifying with terrorism is another. The conservative ex-president didnt stop there. What was he doing in Colombia? Uribe questioned. What was his relationship with the FARC? Caracol Radio reported.
Uribes comments come a week after one of the French journalists documentaries, called Pour tout lor de Colombie (For all the Gold in Colombia), was screened in Bogota. Langlois worked on the film with French journalist Pascale Mariani. It shows how gold mining is helping fund the countrys decades-old civil war. Among other things, the film suggests that Uribe himself has a personal stake in the gold mining business.
Speaking to reporters just after the handover, Langlois dismissed Uribes comments as being a farce and in bad taste. The 35-year-old journalist also criticized his captors, saying they put political concerns before humanitarian considerations.
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http://www.worldcrunch.com/colombias-uribe-accuses-freed-french-reporter-identifying-terrorism/5523
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)"What was his relationship with the FARC?"
Well... I think Uribe is the right person to answer this question, isn't he?
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)going all the way to his brother and cousin, with testimonies from paramilitaries that he himself was entirely connected with the death squads, one of the most powerful of all, Salvatore Mancuso, completely implicating him in public testimony.
What a joke.