Teen takes children hostage at French nursery

PARIS - Up to half a dozen children were being held hostage by a 17-year-old youth armed with two swords at a nursery school in the eastern French city of Besancon, the city's mayor said on Monday.

The young man took around 20 children hostage shortly after the kindergarten opened, but later released a dozen or so.

"Around 14 children have come out and at the moment there are five or six still inside," Besancon Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret told France Info radio.

The hostage-taker's motive was unclear, but French media said he was known to suffer from depression.

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French radio questionnaire on air in Rwanda

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"Global warming relations between Rwanda and the France".

Kigali - ban for four years in Rwanda, French radio RFI is said on the FM frequency in English and Swahili in what officials is part of relations renewed between Kigali and Paris.

Questionnaire is back on the airwaves with a new frequency 91.9 and can be heard in Kigali since Tuesday, but tests are underway since septembre.écouteurs in other provinces has also indicated that they receive the signal of the questionnaire.

"It is with great pleasure that the questionnaire can rediscover Rwanda listeners with a new offer, enriched by two hours per day in Swahili programs in French," said Geneviève Goetzinger, Director of DDR.Le return the questionnaire to the wave comes during a warming of relations between the two countries.

Go?tzinger said that questionnaire was new and more attractive programming including two hours of programming in Swahili for listeners in this region.

Questionnaire was extinguished by the Government in November 2006 after indictments attacked by a French judge against 9 officials suspected links the assassination of former President Juvénal Habyarimana.Diplomates French were expelled as well as all French interests, including a school and a cultural centre.

All these have since reopened with a return to normal relations between Kigali and in Paris, which began in November of last year.

With a frequency FM air questionnaire, it brings to four international with a 24-hour in Rwanda, including the BBC, relay broadcasters DW and VOA.Les BBC and VOA Kinyarwanda ranging from one-hour segments and two hours per day.

There are about 10 local FM stations with Radio Rwanda State.

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