Court sentences aid workers for failed kidnappings

Thursday, December 27, 2007

N'DJAMENA, Chad -- A Chadian court sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labor Wednesday after finding them guilty of trying to kidnap 103 African children and bring them to Europe.

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