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Algerian militants issue video showing killing of kidnapped Frenchman

Algerian militants have released a video that appears to show them beheading Frenchman Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped on Sunday, in what the group said was a response to France's action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.

 

The video shows Gourdel, a 55-year-old tourist from Nice, kneeling with his arms tied behind his back before four masked militants who read out a statement in Arabic criticizing France's military intervention.

 

They then pushed him on his side and held him down. The video does not show the beheading, but a militant holds the head up to the camera.

 

"This is why the Caliphate Soldiers in Algeria have decided to punish France, by executing this man, and to defend our beloved Islamic State," one of the militants says in the statement he read out.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.24.14, 19:40