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Paris says will not negotiate with hostage-takers

A security guard shows photos of Tanguy Moulin-Fournier and wife Albane (centre) and their four children, kidnapped this month while visiting the Waza National Park.. Photo: AFP

France will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram who have taken a French family of seven hostage, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday.

The three adults and four children were seized in Cameroon’s far north near the Nigerian border last week. In a video posted online on Monday, the gunmen threatened to kill them unless authorities in Nigeria and Cameroon released Muslim militants held there.