French journo arrives in Paris
12/06/2005 19:35  - (SA)  

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Villacoublay - Freed French hostage Florence Aubenas, looking thinner but radiant, arrived home to a joyful welcome on Sunday after she and her Iraqi assistant were safely released from five months' captivity in Iraq.

President Jacques Chirac greeted Aubenas with a kiss on the cheek at an airstrip in Villacoublay, west of Paris, where her flight touched down. She spent the first minutes of her homecoming embracing her family and did not immediately address reporters.

Earlier, Chirac went on television to praise officials for their efforts to free the 43-year-old French journalist and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi.

"At the end of a long, painful, 157-day captivity that was shared by all French people, they will at last return to their families and loved ones, and I want to tell them of our joy," Chirac said.

- AP

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