Hostages rescued by the French in Burkina Faso expressed their condolences to the relatives of their liberators

Hostages freed by French commandos from militants in Burkina Faso expressed their condolences on Saturday, May 11, to the families of two French soldiers who died during the rescue operation.
In a daring raid on Thursday night, French special forces freed two Frenchmen abducted in neighboring Benin more than a week ago, as well as an American woman and a South Korean woman who were being held with them.
Two Frenchmen, Laurent Lassimouille and Patrick Pic, and a South Korean woman, who remains unidentified, met with President Burkinabe Roh Kabore at the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, the capital.
French President Emmanuel Macron will welcome them at a military airport near Paris. The American, who was also unidentified, is being repatriated to the United States.
"All our thoughts go out to the families of the soldiers and soldiers who died to free us from this hell," Lassimouia said in his remarks to reporters.
"We wanted to convey our condolences to these families because we feel ambivalent about everything that happened to us," he said.
The French government identified the two dead soldiers as Cedric de Pierrepont and Alain Bertoncello, officers of the Naval special forces.
Lassimouya also expressed regret over the death of a guide in a Beninese park, who was killed when two tourists were abducted during a safari in northern Benin and then transported across the border to Burkina Faso.
French officials said on Friday it was not yet clear who had abducted them in Benin, but described their abductors in Burkina Faso as "terrorists" who planned to hand them over to an Al Qaeda affiliate in neighboring Mali.
In recent years, jihadist groups with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have expanded their presence in the Sahel region of West Africa, in the bushland under the Sahara Desert, and have taken a number of Western hostages.
France, a former colonial power in the region, intervened in Mali in 2013 to stop the advance of Islamist militants towards the capital Bamako, and has since retained about 4,500 troops in the Sahel.
Speaking on Europa-1 radio, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has repeatedly warned French citizens about the dangers of traveling to the north of Benin.

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