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French NGO expresses concern on the abduction of three European cooperators in Saharawi refugee camps

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Paris, October 24, 2011 (SPS) - The Association of Friends of SADR in France (AARASD) has expressed its extreme concern following the abduction of three European cooperators working in the humanitarian field in the Saharawi refugee camps on Saturday midnight by a terrorist group.

“We are very concerned in France to what happened to 3 European collaborators and strongly hope that SADR authorities would quickly capture the terrorist commando and liberate the cooperators as soon as possible," wrote the French NGO, in letter to the Saharawi authorities reached SPS.

AARASD considered that this operation “is targeting the refugee camps,” expressing its full solidarity with the Saharawi people in this difficult time.

A statement of Ministry of Information previously indicated that Three European cooperators, two Spaniards and one from Italy, belonging to international NGOs working in Saharawi refugee camps were kidnapped Saturday night by terrorist elements infiltrated from the neighboring Malian territories. (SPS)

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