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News 07 Dec 2011 3 min read

Arrest in Nouadhibou of the instigators of the kidnapping of Westerners in Tindouf: Polisario's responsibility confirmed

Arrest in Nouadhibou of the instigators of the kidnapping of Westerners in Tindouf: Polisario's responsibility confirmed
According to a Mauritanian source, the anti-terrorist police of that country arrested two men presented as the kidnappers of three Westerners (two Spaniards and an Italian) in October in the Rabouni camp near Tindouf, in Algeria, this Monday in Nouadhibou, in northern Mauritania. "The two men who had taken hostage" the Spanish and Italian nationals "in a Sahrawi refugee camp (in Algeria) were arrested in an apartment they had rented in the heart of Nouadhibou through one of their relatives," said this source on condition of anonymity. This same source indicated that the two alleged terrorists, who had been in Nouadhibou for 11 days, were transferred urgently to Nouakchott. It stated that it had, for the moment, no indication of the fate of the hostages. One of the two men, who appears to be "the main perpetrator of the kidnapping, allegedly stormed the camp. He was born in 1982 and goes…

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