This is a decision that does not please the whole of Paris. The French authorities have protested officially on Saturday against the liberation of Kabul of afghan detainees convicted for the murders of French citizens. The afghan authorities announced Friday that they had started to release the 400 prisoners the taliban, some of whom were involved in deadly attacks that have killed Afghan and foreign. Their fate has been one of the main obstacles to the start of the negotiations between the insurgents and the afghan government, repeatedly postponed, as provided for in an agreement signed late February by the United States and the insurgents.
This group of prisoners includes the two murderers of Bettina Goislard, used French of the united Nations High Commissioner for refugees, killed on 16 November 2003 in Ghazni (Is), as well as a former afghan soldier who, in 2012 in the province of Kapisa killed five French soldiers and wounded 13 others. France is "strongly opposed to the release of individuals sentenced for having committed crimes against French nationals, especially soldiers and humanitarian workers who have worked with dedication, working alongside our afghan partners, for the safety and assistance of populations in need", says the French ministry of foreign Affairs in a press release issued Saturday evening.
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"therefore, We have urged the afghan authorities not to proceed with the release of these terrorists," says the ministry, was "essential that the process of exit from the crisis respond to the needs of victims of the conflict and that the perpetrators of criminal acts make a full account of these acts." The family of Bettina Goislard has described as"incomprehensible" the "release on the bottom of the bargain" of the two murderers of this employee is un.
