The former French hostage Sophie Pétronin, whose return to Mali had aroused indignation, is not taking
"the slightest risk"
, her son assured Sunday, November 21.
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According to Sébastien Chadaud-Pétronin, the septuagenarian lives in the country's capital, far from conflict zones.
"I do not feel that she is taking the slightest risk,"
said Sébastien Chadaud-Pétronin, who had accompanied his mother back to Mali in March, on Swiss television RTS.
“She lives in Bamako like 8,000 French people, plus a whole security protocol. She is discreet, she does not bother anyone, she does not leave her apartment, ”
he insisted, asking that we
“ let her end her life as she wants to do ”
.
"If she had returned to the red zone, to the war zone, I myself would have participated in these criticisms, because I would not have understood, and I would have even found it shocking and indecent"
, pleaded Sébastien Chadaud. -Pétronin Sunday, explaining that his mother was unhappy in Switzerland and wanted to find her adopted daughter in Bamako.
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Sophie Pétronin returned to settle in the country last March, a return that French government spokesman Gabriel Attal described as
"irresponsible"
.
The French aid worker was kidnapped in December 2016 in Gao, in the north of the country, and detained by a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
In October 2020, without real consultation with Paris, the new Malian regime decided to release several dozen prisoners arrested during anti-jihadist operations, against four hostages, including the French Sophie Pétronin.
