“At the moment when they pointed at us, on the street, and he asked us to follow the other cars which were in front of us.
Me, I said to myself: “This is it, we are kidnapped.”
», Testifies Father Michel Briand, a 67-year-old French priest taken hostage on April 11 on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti alongside nine other people.
That day, about fifteen armed men blocked a national road and captured the group on their way to the ordination of a priest.
The kidnappers demand a ransom of one million euros against the release of the hostages.
The ten people kidnapped will not be released until April 30, after 20 days of captivity.
Among them, another French nun: Sister Agnès Bordeau.
“I gave thanks to the Lord for being there: safe and sound.
And the first thing was to go to the shower and take a foot bath.
And there, I felt good afterwards!
I did not want to sleep ”, rejoices this octogenarian.
In Haiti, these kidnappings for ransom are on the increase in a country plagued by armed gangs and extreme poverty.