An investigation was opened in Paris on Monday for "kidnapping and kidnapping in an organized gang" after the kidnapping of two French nationals from among seven Catholic clerics in Haiti on Sunday, the prosecution said.
The investigation was entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO), said the Paris prosecutor's office, competent for crimes committed abroad against French citizens.
The kidnappers demanded a ransom of one million euros in exchange for the release of the group, kidnapped near Port-au-Prince.
On Sunday, seven Catholic religious were kidnapped near the capital Port-au-Prince, while they "were on their way to the installation of a new priest". The group includes a nun and four Haitian priests, as well as two French people, a nun and a priest. The Haitian Conference of Religious (CHR) later said in a statement that three other people, relatives of another priest who were not among those kidnapped, were also kidnapped.
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