French journo pleads on video
01/03/2005 13:27  - (SA)  

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French journalist Florence Aubenas, missing in Iraq since January 5, pleads for help on television. (Patrick Hertzog, Sky Italia/AP)

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Rome - The French journalist Florence Aubenas, who has been missing in Iraq since January 5, has appeared in a video broadcast by Sky Italia news channel desperately pleading for help, saying her health is "very bad".

"I am French. I am a journalist with Liberation. Please help me. My health is very bad. I'm very bad psychologically also," an exhausted-looking Aubenas says in the video, broadcast on the Italian channel early on Monday.

"This is urgent now. Help me! I ask especially Mr Didier Julia, the French deputy. Please Mr Julia. Help me! It's urgent. Mr Julia help me!"

Julia, a French MP of President Jacques Chirac's ruling UMP party, headed a failed mission to free other French reporters who were kidnapped in Iraq last September.

Aubenas, a 43-year-old senior correspondent for the left-leaning newspaper Liberation, and her Iraqi translator Hussein Hanun al-Saadi had not been seen or heard from since they left her Baghdad hotel on January 5.

- AFP

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