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France, Italy and Germany payed ransoms to free their countrymen kidnapped in Iraq

London, UK - It was retailed British newspaper "Times"

In an article appeared yesterday on the "Times" it sustained that the Government of Italy, France and Germany should have payed, in the last 21 months, about EUR 45 million to free their countrymen kidnapped in Iraq. In particular France should have payed EUR 25 million to free the journalists Christian Chesnot, Georges Malbrunot and Florence Aubenas, Italy EUR 11 million to free Simona Pari, Simona...

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Rome, Italy, 05/23/2006 17:04
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