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France has asked Chad to send home six French aid workers sentenced to eight years of hard labour for trying to kidnap 103 children.
The four men and two women from French humanitarian group Zoe's Ark were arrested in October as they tried to fly the children, aged one to 10, to Europe for fostering with families.
French Justice Minister Rachida Dati this week formally requested for the six to be transferred to serve their terms in France under a 1976 judicial accord between Paris and its former colony. Chadian authorities will consider the request.
- REUTERS
