French Woman Abducted in Kenya Dies

[alp227]

Source: NYT

A disabled Frenchwoman kidnapped by Somali gunmen in Kenya earlier this month has died in captivity, the French government announced on Wednesday.

The woman, Marie Dedieu, 66, was dragged from a beachfront bungalow on the tourist island of Manda in the early morning of Oct. 1. Witnesses said a small group of heavily armed Somalis beached their speedboat in front of the woman’s home, perhaps alerted to her presence by local workers. A recovering cancer patient and quadriplegic who had lived on the island for years, Ms. Dedieu was taken without her wheelchair or medication.

It was one of a series of similar attacks by Somali gunmen that have shaken Kenyan tour operators and security officials in recent weeks, and which Kenya has used to justify a military campaign into Somalia, begun on Sunday.

Addressing the Parliament on Wednesday, French Prime Minister François Fillon spoke of the “indignation that is ours in the face of this act of cruelty, this act of barbarity,” noting that Ms. Dedieu was aged, disabled and sickly. “This speaks to the humanity of those who kidnapped her,” Mr. Fillon said. The government had attempted to send medication to Ms. Dedieu, he and other officials said, but it was believed that her captors had refused to give it to her.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/world/africa/french-woman-abducted-in-kenya-dies.html

[AlbertCat]

1. Somalia!

A country with a government small enough to strangle in a bath tub.

Send Grover right over...

That's what he wants, isn't it?

[Blue_Tires]

6. Send all the teabaggers over

completely unregulated capitalism, social darwinism, and a proliferation of guns everywhere...

[47of74]

7. Like Alan Grayson said...

...and we'll check back with said teabaggers a year from now to see how they're doing.

[catbyte]

2. How on earth do they think something heinous like that

would generate support for their cause?

[JI7]

4. just like blowing up and killing students ready to take exams

bunch of fucked up scum.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Kick for greater exposure.

Just a despicable act.

[Blue_Tires]

5. If you're that desperate for a ransom, why kidnap a health risk?

This just never made sense to me...Unless the kidnappers were led into thinking she came from a billionaire family or something...

It's very sad...She did NOT deserve this end...:cry: