FRANCE: FRENCH NATIONAL STEPHANE LOISY, FREED AFTER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN PHILIPPINES ARRIVES HOME
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647553
FRANCE: FRENCH NATIONAL STEPHANE LOISY, FREED AFTER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN PHILIPPINES ARRIVES HOME
- Title: FRANCE: FRENCH NATIONAL STEPHANE LOISY, FREED AFTER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN PHILIPPINES ARRIVES HOME
- Date: 13th September 2000
- Summary: ROISSY, CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 12, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV STEPHANE LOISY'S FAMILY ON TARMAC 0.06 2. SLV PLANE ARRIVING; RELATIVES WALKING TOWARDS PLANE (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. MV LOISYS FATHER STROKING HIS HAIR; STEPHANE LOISY AND MARIE MOARBES (FORMER HOSTAGE) KISSING; LOISY AND RELATIVES HUGGING AND KISSING; SCU STEPHANE LOISY HOLDING HIS GIRLFRIEND SONYA WENDLING AND HIS MOTHER'S HAND AND WALKING ALONG (5 SHOTS) 1.52 4. SCU LOISY SPEAKING WITH MEDIA (FRENCH) (TRANSLATION NOT AVAILABLE) (2 SHOTS) 3.00 5. SLV MEDIA CROWDED AROUND LOISY 3.03 6. SLV LOISY WALKING 3.08 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 28th September 2000 13:00
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- Location: ROISSY, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVACRAZ65VI7OWI3TS1X3PMYYNVB
- Story Text: French national Stephane Loisy freed after being held
hostage in the Philippine jungle for more than five months has
arrived in the French capital after a stop-over in Tripoli.
Stephane Loisy, a French hostage among a group of
four Europeans released by Moslem rebels in the Philippines,
landed at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris late on
Tuesday (September 12).
Family members, former hostage and Loisy's girlfriend
Sonya Wendling, Franco-Lebanese and former hostage Marie
Moarbes, all turned out to welcome Stephane Loisy when the
plane, a Mystere 20, touched down at the airport.
Stephane Loisy reached France via Tripoli where he was
formally handed over to French officials by Libyan negotiators
who had helped secure his release.
Loisy and three other Europeans Marc Wallert of Germany
and Finns Seppo Juhani Franti and Risto Mirco Vahanen were
among 21 people kidnapped by Moslem rebels from a resort on
the Malaysian island of Sipadan on April 23 and taken to the
southern Philippines island of Jolo. All but one of that
group, a Filipino resort worker, have now been freed.
Two French television journalists and an American man, all
taken hostage after the Sipadan group, are also being held
on Jolo.
Muslim rebels this week seized three more hostages from a
Malaysian island.
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