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"Nicolas Sarkozy threatens Al-Qaeda with reprisals," reports Le Figaro. On 26 July, Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old aid worker kidnapped in Niger on 20 April has been "assassinated" in Mali. The French President described the killing claimed by the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) as a “barbarous act” and announced that it “will not go unpunished.” Le Figaro remarks that “France and Europe should assist Algeria, Mauritania, and all the Sahel-Saharan states in establishing an effective policy for the monitoring and prevention” of terrorism.
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