AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The head of the group that had seized the Polish priest has been released

Friday, 28 November 2014

Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I am happy to be free, it is something extraordinary. I was held for six weeks. I was treated well and respected", said, Fr. Mateusz Dziedzic, the Fidei Donum Polish priest abducted in Central Africa in mid-October and released on November 26 (see Fides 27/11/2014) while getting off the plane that brought him to Brazzaville.
On the same plane that brought Fr. Mateusz from Yaounde, Cameroon, to Brazzaville (Congo), there was also Abdoulaye Miskine, the head of the group that had kidnapped the priest, the Front Démocratique du Peuple Centrafricain (FDPC). Miskine was held in Cameroon and was therefore released simultaneously to Fr. Mateusz and 15 citizens of Cameroon abducted in the east of their Country.
Fr. Mateusz and Miskine were received by the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, mediator in the crisis in Central Africa. According to Agenzia Fides sources, Fr. Mateusz will soon return to Poland. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 28/11/2014)


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