Chad’s Higher Judicial Council gave him the go-ahead on Friday to pardon six French aid workers jailed for eight years for abducting children, an official said. The six members of the Zoe’s Ark charity were sentenced to eight years’ hard labour by Chad last year for trying to kidnap 103 African children.
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/ 5 November 2007
The French opposition on Monday dismissed President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Chad to bring seven Europeans home as a ”Zorro act” as questions mounted over a charity accused of trying to abduct 103 children. Three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses came back on Sarkozy’s presidential jet.