Found Alive Burkina Faso (Africa) - Edith Blais, 34 & Luca Tacchetto, 30, Canada & Italy tourists, 15 Dec 2018

[zecats]

Il sequestro di Luca Tacchetto in Burkina Faso, si indaga per terrorismo


Kidnapping in connection with terrorism: this is the hypothesis of crime formulated by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office in relation to the disappearance in Burkina Faso of architect Luca Tacchetto from Padua. The file, transmitted from Padua to the Roman prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco, was initially listed as model 45, i.e. without suspects or hypothesis of crime. Now the prosecutor Colaiocco has registered him according to Article 289 bis of the Criminal Code.


BBM

No ransom demand; no bodies displayed as warnings or as prizes; no claim from any listed terror organization. These are the types of behaviors one would expect from terrorists, based on previous behavior. Perhaps the kidnapping was more from a local group, with robbery in mind. Money and/or car.

I'm sad for the families of these two young people.

 

[ZaZara]

Luca Tacchetto ed Edith Blais, «ora i jihadisti potrebbero chiedere il riscatto»

Luca Tacchetto and Edith Blais, "now the jihadists could ask for ransom"

The Italian man and the Canadian woman who disappeared in Burkina Faso would be the victims of an abduction. The secrecy is absolute, but the authorities are convinced that they are alive. Negotiating with fundamentalist parties is, however, difficult.

Rome. Seized by terrorists from Burkina Faso, hostages of a gang of jihadists who could demand a ransom for them to finance fundamentalism. For Luca Tacchetto and Edith Blais, the worst of the nightmares materializes. It is the Canadian and then the Italian authorities who confirm that the 30-year-old architect born in Vigonza, in the province of Padua, and his 34-year-old Canadian girlfriend, of whom there has been no news since 15 December, have been kidnapped. Two days after the statement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who assured the family "Edith is alive," a long and difficult phase begins. Because the conviction of intelligence services and diplomacy is that the two may be in the hands of a Qaedist group and this is enough to understand how difficult the activity of 007 and diplomacy can be to keep the channels of negotiation open.

The last message that Tacchetto sends to his father Nunzio dates back to 23:57 on 15 December. Then nothing more. Ten days later, the family filed a report with the Carabinieri, and the crisis unit of the Farnesina was immediately activated. No one is able to say what happened to the couple, yet the testimonies collected by the local authorities allow us to reconstruct that they were travelling between the city of Bobo-Dioulasso and the capital Ouagadougou when they disappeared completely. They left by car from Italy, had crossed France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania and Mali, and were in Burkina heading for Togo, for a humanitarian project with the organization Zion'Gaïa. Searches were started, all possible channels were opened. And in the end, it is the specialists of the intelligence of the Aise [ Security services ] who grasp the trace that can lead to a turning point. They are moving on very complicated ground, just remember that the decree to establish the Italian diplomatic representation in Burkina was signed just a year ago and so far only the consulate has been opened. The men of the security forces, however, follow a particular trail that leads precisely to the Jihadist groups.

The maximum reserve is maintained, it is decided not to provide any confirmation that the two Westerners have been kidnapped to avoid giving advantages to the fundamentalists and, above all, to avoid the risk of further raising the price of ransom. The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office opens an investigation for kidnapping for terrorist purposes and entrusts it to the Public Prosecutor, Sergio Colaiocco, who follows all the investigations into the Italians kidnapped abroad. The delegation is entrusted to the Carabinieri of the Ros [ Special Operations Group ] : at the moment, there are very few possible technical verifications - just taking into account that the mobile phones of the two have been mute for more than a month - but the testimonies of those who met them during the journey and, above all, the previous contacts they had, can prove to be precious. The conviction is that the two may have been targeted while they were moving, probably during the contacts they had with the locals for logistical reasons such as the sale of a car. And for this reason - through the consulate - they are trying to track down all those who have met them.


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[ZaZara]

La mamma di Luca Tacchetto: «Non so nulla, prego che torni»

Luca Tacchetto's mother: "I don't know anything, please come home"

Rosanna Crivellari: "I read what you write, I look at the TV, but there is only so much confusion. The Canadian Prime Minister's statement didn't seem so clear to me."

PADOVA- "We don't know anything. I read what you write, I look at TV, but there's just a lot of confusion." Rosanna Crivellari answers the phone and says she doesn't want to talk to journalists anymore. She can only cling to the hope that someone will bring her son home. The only thing that matters. She is the mother of Luca Tacchetto, the architect from Padua who disappeared in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest city in Burkina Faso, on 15 December. When he was precisely thirty years old, he wanted to make that long journey on the road with all his heart. Behind the wheel of an old Renault, it would take him with his Canadian friend Edith Blais from Veneto to Togo, to work as volunteers in the construction of a village. Instead, the couple would have been kidnapped in Burkina Faso by one of the many Jihadist groups that are rampant in Africa.

Rosanna is a teacher and lives in Vigonza with her husband Nunzio Tacchetto, the former mayor of the village. After the flood of interviews in recent weeks, yesterday the man took refuge behind a "I know nothing," perhaps to comply with the recommendations of the Farnesina to "keep the utmost secrecy." Luca's mother let off steam with her closest friends: "I pray for them to come home. For the rest, I don't understand what's going on. The statement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn't seem so clear to me: rather than being certain that Edith was alive, it seemed to mean that no information has come from Burkina Faso that would suggest the opposite. There is a certain difference..."

It's impossible to know if the relatives are really unaware of the negotiations, or if at this stage they want to avoid letting slip a few unnecessary words. They certainly understood that the moment is delicate, to the point of having stopped the initiative planned for the derby between Padua and Hellas Verona, who today should have taken to the field wearing the shirts with the photo of the couple. In recent days, however, it was Nunzio Tacchetto himself who was out of balance: "Either my son was kidnapped or swallowed by a maelstrom where nothing is left. The most likely thing is that he was kidnapped for political or economic ends."

Six thousand kilometers from Vigonza, in Sherbrooke (Canada), Jocelyne Bergeron reads hundreds of messages of encouragement. She is the other mother of this ugly story. "Follow my light, Edith. It will bring you home," she writes on Facebook, clinging to the hope that the invisible bond between a mother and her daughter is strong enough to cross the Atlantic and reach the heart of Africa, to snatch her from her jailers. "I have no official news - she says - but in my heart I know that she is alive. I remain positive, even if we are living through difficult times and it is not easy to be able to do everything that is necessary..." Now that the news of the kidnapping has come to light, she also denies having received confirmation from those who are following the investigation. "I'm confused," she admits. All that remains is to hope. Because these two mothers are also waiting to be saved.


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[zecats]

La mamma di Luca Tacchetto: «Non so nulla, prego che torni»

Luca Tacchetto's mother: "I don't know anything, please come home"

Rosanna Crivellari: "I read what you write, I look at the TV, but there is only so much confusion. The Canadian Prime Minister's statement didn't seem so clear to me."

PADOVA- "We don't know anything. I read what you write, I look at TV, but there's just a lot of confusion." Rosanna Crivellari answers the phone and says she doesn't want to talk to journalists anymore. She can only cling to the hope that someone will bring her son home. The only thing that matters. She is the mother of Luca Tacchetto, the architect from Padua who disappeared in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest city in Burkina Faso, on 15 December. When he was precisely thirty years old, he wanted to make that long journey on the road with all his heart. Behind the wheel of an old Renault, it would take him with his Canadian friend Edith Blais from Veneto to Togo, to work as volunteers in the construction of a village. Instead, the couple would have been kidnapped in Burkina Faso by one of the many Jihadist groups that are rampant in Africa.

Rosanna is a teacher and lives in Vigonza with her husband Nunzio Tacchetto, the former mayor of the village. After the flood of interviews in recent weeks, yesterday the man took refuge behind a "I know nothing," perhaps to comply with the recommendations of the Farnesina to "keep the utmost secrecy." Luca's mother let off steam with her closest friends: "I pray for them to come home. For the rest, I don't understand what's going on. The statement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn't seem so clear to me: rather than being certain that Edith was alive, it seemed to mean that no information has come from Burkina Faso that would suggest the opposite. There is a certain difference..."

It's impossible to know if the relatives are really unaware of the negotiations, or if at this stage they want to avoid letting slip a few unnecessary words. They certainly understood that the moment is delicate, to the point of having stopped the initiative planned for the derby between Padua and Hellas Verona, who today should have taken to the field wearing the shirts with the photo of the couple. In recent days, however, it was Nunzio Tacchetto himself who was out of balance: "Either my son was kidnapped or swallowed by a maelstrom where nothing is left. The most likely thing is that he was kidnapped for political or economic ends."

Six thousand kilometers from Vigonza, in Sherbrooke (Canada), Jocelyne Bergeron reads hundreds of messages of encouragement. She is the other mother of this ugly story. "Follow my light, Edith. It will bring you home," she writes on Facebook, clinging to the hope that the invisible bond between a mother and her daughter is strong enough to cross the Atlantic and reach the heart of Africa, to snatch her from her jailers. "I have no official news - she says - but in my heart I know that she is alive. I remain positive, even if we are living through difficult times and it is not easy to be able to do everything that is necessary..." Now that the news of the kidnapping has come to light, she also denies having received confirmation from those who are following the investigation. "I'm confused," she admits. All that remains is to hope. Because these two mothers are also waiting to be saved.


BBM

Thank you for all your postings. They are very informative. You are a journalistic workhorse. If this weren't a tragedy of 2 missing and endangered individuals, it would make an interesting adventure/suspense novel.

It's sad when the best case scenario is that they have been kidnapped and are being held by a terrorist group. I still find it odd that there aren't any requests for ransom. Only the so-called delicacy of the possible communications would perhaps explain that. Another explanation is that they may have been kidnapped but are no longer alive. If they resisted or tried to escape, they could have been killed already. Sadly.

I'll hang on the hope that a negotiation is possible and they will be returned to their families.

 

[ZaZara]

Padovano scomparso in Africa, spunta l'ombra di Al Qaeda | Vvox


Paduan man missing in Africa: the shadow of Al Qaeda emerges


After 35 days there is still great anxiety about the fate of the Paduan architect Luca Tacchetto and Canadian Edith Blais, who disappeared in Burkina Faso. In recent days, news has arrived that the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation for kidnapping for the purpose of ransom by terrorist groups. Now, as Enrico Ferro reports in today's Mattino on page 19, the Carabinieri del Ros also think of the Al Qaeda trail.


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[ZaZara]

IPOTESI RAPIMENTO: INDAGINI IN UN QUADRO DI FORTE INSTABILITA' POLITICA

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome, responsible for the Italians abroad, has changed the file [of a disappearance ] without suspects and hypothesis of crime opened at first for the disappearance in Burkina Faso of the architect of Vignoza Luca Tacchetto and his travel companion Edith Blais, and now it is proceeding with a crime of kidnapping for terrorist purposes. In Burkina Faso, Italian and Canadian authorities would be engaged in a difficult phase of identifying a reliable interlocutor for the alleged kidnapping that is suspected to be the work of one of the groups gravitating in the jihadist galaxy active in the area. A complex work and carried out in the strictest confidence, in a situation that is anything but simple.
Among the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso has in recent years been the subject of raids by radicalized armed gangs that often target Western citizens. A picture of uncertainty in which in recent days Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thiéba has presented the resignation of his government and among the reasons that led to the crisis of the government there is also the growing concern of a downfall in security.


BBM


Jihadist galaxy .... OMG

 

[dotr]

First time reading the term " Jihadist Galaxy "...
France's Le Parisien finds new way to visualize 'galaxy' of jihadists
"In the days and weeks following the November terrorist attacks in Paris, the media furiously attempted to understand the people behind the brutal violence. It was a gargantuan task: the attackers came from France and Belgium; some had met in Syria. Others had been involved in previous attacks.

Reporters at French daily newspaper Le Parisien had never had to deal with visualizing such a network of terrorists. Though they initially used a point-and-click widget to show all the attackers on a single page, it began to look messy and chaotic. In the weeks that followed, as the web of suspected jihadists grew even more, the visualization became still larger and more complex (pictured below).

So in March, a team of journalists, data journalists and techies sat down to brainstorm a next-level way to visualize the attackers and their involvement. After three weeks of coding, they launched La Galaxie Djihadiste, the Jihadist Galaxy, in April, a visual database of suspected jihadists linked to terrorist attacks in Europe since 2012. Each suspect has a profile, and each terrorist attack features the profiles of those involved and their connections with one another."
"Indeed, the Galaxy shows that many implicated terrorists have multiple, overlapping connections, and that French-speaking ISIS fighters from France and Belgium tend to fight together. For example, Belgian-Moroccan Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected organizer of ISIS' Paris attacks, is connected to Frenchman Foued Mohamed-Aggad, one of the Bataclan killers. Mohamed-Aggad and Abaaoud allegedly met while in Syria.

Users can also filter by event to visualize the people involved in each terrorist attack"

 

[ZaZara]

«Burkina Faso, Luca ed Edith rapiti da affiliati ad Al Qaeda» | Vvox

Luca Tacchetto, a 30-year-old architect from Vigonza (Padua), and Edith Blais from Canada, who disappeared in Burkina Faso last December 15, were kidnapped by criminal gangs affiliated with Al Qaeda. This is what Monica Timbiyabi Rinaldi, responsible for nutrition of an NGO in the African country, says: "It would not be the first case in which Westerners are kidnapped by local bandits and then sold to terrorist groups," she tells in an interview with Alice Ferretti in Il Mattino di oggi.

"For three years now, and in a series of increasing gravity and frequency, the border areas to the north and east, and to a much lesser extent to the west, have been the scene of attacks aimed at the armed forces and representatives of the State," she explains. The recent fall of the government, moreover, "may negatively affect the country's ability to be a possible mediator with the kidnappers and also the possible decision to devote more energy to the search for the two young people."


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[Elainera]

Is it at this point confirmed they have been kidnapped, or is this an assumption based on most likely scenario? The wording of the various people who spoke about kidnapping in the past few days is not really clear imo.

I assume searches were carried out along the highway they were travelling to make sure they didn't have an accident?

 

[ZaZara]

Is it at this point confirmed they have been kidnapped, or is this an assumption based on most likely scenario? The wording of the various people who spoke about kidnapping in the past few days is not really clear imo.

I assume searches were carried out along the highway they were travelling to make sure they didn't have an accident?

The Italian Prosecutor is investigating a crime of kidnapping with terrorist purposes. They have left the earlier track of a disapperance without suspects or the hypothesis of crime. IMHO this means they no longer believe in a car accident or a voluntary disappearance.

If there has been a confirmation, or a demand for ransom, I wonder if we'll hear about it. Unless the kidnappers go public of course. Hopefully they are in it for the money, and not for propaganda.



BTW Canada has a no-ransom policy and this is bad news for Edith Blais.


Report from 2016- 2018 after the murders of Robert Hall and John Ridsel, Canadians who were kidnapped by islamist groups in the Philippines:

Ottawa’s no-ransom policy doesn’t mean more Canadians won’t be kidnapped

"The government of Canada will not and cannot pay ransoms for hostages to terrorists groups, as doing so would endanger the lives of more Canadians," Mr. Trudeau restated Monday.

There is little doubt that Mr. Trudeau is right that the citizens of a government that pays ransoms are more likely to be targeted. But Mr. Hall's killing is evidence that some Islamist kidnappers simply don't care; that they will grab anyone and, if they don't get the money they want, happily kill them. It is a game of chicken, and the pressure to blink will be greater on Mr. Trudeau than it ever will be on the terrorists.

 

[cybervampira]

 

[zecats]

The Italian Prosecutor is investigating a crime of kidnapping with terrorist purposes. They have left the earlier track of a disapperance without suspects or the hypothesis of crime. IMHO this means they no longer believe in a car accident or a voluntary disappearance.

If there has been a confirmation, or a demand for ransom, I wonder if we'll hear about it. Unless the kidnappers go public of course. Hopefully they are in it for the money, and not for propaganda.



BTW Canada has a no-ransom policy and this is bad news for Edith Blais.


Report from 2016- 2018 after the murders of Robert Hall and John Ridsel, Canadians who were kidnapped by islamist groups in the Philippines:

Ottawa’s no-ransom policy doesn’t mean more Canadians won’t be kidnapped

I hope so too, and since there have been no public demands (that we know of), hopefully negotiating has started to get them released asap. Poor Edith though. Her outlook is not so good unless the Italian government will pay her ransom as well. Would they?

RBBM

 

[Elainera]

Poor Edith though. Her outlook is not so good unless the Italian government will pay her ransom as well. Would they?

I've read an article a couple of weeks ago that I can't find now again where it was said that other groups/organisations and also private donors would provide the money in such a scenario. I think I remember it said that is has been done like that in the past. (All this specifically referred to Canada and its policy not to pay ransom demands.)

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Canada’s No Ransom Policy In The New Era of Terrorism
"In September 2009, Alberta resident Amanda Lindhout was far from the comforts of her home.

She was a prisoner, held captive by Islamist insurgents for 13 months. As recounted in her memoir, she was allegedly subjected to abuse and rape—yet, they continued to leave her with twisted hope that it could all stop as soon as her family paid the ransom fee."
"The group demanded either government to pay more than $2 million U.S. The deal was offered a week after their abduction, though, according to the Australian government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Global Affairs Canada’s no-ransom policy, they refused to oblige.

More than a year after her abduction, Lindhout and Brennan’s ransom was paid through private donations arranged by a firm that specializes in hostage negotiations."
"While also acknowledging the weaknesses of the government’s no-ransom policy, Lindhout suggests ways that Canada can help victims and their families in hostage crises. In the U.S., she mentioned, former president Barack Obama made it legal in 2015 for families to fundraise for ransom payments without potential prosecution"
"Update: This story was updated to include the following- In 2009, Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay were kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Africa. The government denied paying any ransom, however, in 2013, it was reported by The Associated Press that the country had paid $1.1 million for the release of both Fowler and Guay".

 

[ZaZara]

I've read an article a couple of weeks ago that I can't find now again where it was said that other groups/organisations and also private donors would provide the money in such a scenario. I think I remember it said that is has been done like that in the past. (All this specifically referred to Canada and its policy not to pay ransom demands.)

IMHO there may be a difference between what the government says and what they actually do.
Consider the fact that Kirk Woodman, another Canadian was abducted and murdered recently in Burkina Faso. Would anyone want another murder?

Keep in mind also that Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland made a show out of receiving Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who fled her family in Saudi Arabia because she feared for her life. Rahaf has been given extra protection on top of that.

Deteriorating relations with Saudi Arabia come with a price tag as well. Why pay a price for a foreigner, but not for a citizen?

'Brave new Canadian': Saudi teen Rahaf al-Qunun arrives in Canada

Rahaf al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family claiming she feared for her life, has landed in Canada, after being granted asylum in the North American country.
Al-Qunun was welcomed by Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at Toronto's airport on Saturday.
"This is a very brave new Canadian," Freeland told reporters, with a smiling al-Qunun standing by her side.

Canadians may start to wonder if their government cares more about foreigners than its own people and why that is.
IMHO there will be a lot of pressure on the Canadian government to explain why Rahaf Mohammed has a right to life, and Edith Blais has not. Rahaf Mohammed never lifted one finger for Canada, while Edith Blais has lived, worked and contributed to Canada for 34 years.

 

[squid]

SOLIDARITY

About 300 people gathered the torchlight procession organized tonight by the community of Pianiga for the Paduan architect Luca Tacchetto and the Canadian friend Edith Blais, the two young people who disappeared in Burkina Faso, for whom a kidnapping by Islamic extremists is hypothesised.

Luca's parents were not present, the former mayor of Vigonza, Nunzio, and Rosanna, a teacher at Pianiga, in constant contact with the Farnesina. The procession started from the church of the village moving in silence, without banners or signs. So the return to church for the Mass celebrated by Don Alberto, who at the time of the Gospel read the parable of the lost sheep: "In this father who loves his sheep - he said - we find all the people who love Luca and Edith. We approach the fear and suffering of the family with great closeness and delicacy. We want their lives young and full of dreams to continue.In this church - there is the altarpiece of a Virgin who has been renamed 'Madonna del Ritorno' because she has disappeared twice and twice has returned. We entrust Luca and Edith to the grace of the Virgin Mary mother of the return."

After the homily, the faithful prayed to ask to protect Luca and Edith from dangers and violence, to give courage to Luca's family and to instil prudence and wisdom to the investigators.

 

[ZaZara]

LUCA ED EDITH: RAFFORZATI CONTROLLI E POSTI DI BLOCCO IN BURKINA

LUCA AND EDITH: INCREASED CONTROLS AND CHECKPOINTS IN BURKINA

Many, from Vigonza and the nearby Pianiga, wanted to show their support and solidarity with the Tacchetto family by parading through the streets of the town where Luca's mother, the 30 year old from Vigonza, who disappeared in Burkina Faso together with the Canadian Edith Blais on 15 December, is working as a teacher. A torchlight procession ended with the celebration of a Holy Mass in the church of San Martino Vescovo, in anticipation of certain news that has not yet arrived.

While the work of the Italian and Canadian authorities proceeds in the strictest secrecy, at the moment the most probable hypothesis and the one on which the Police Headquarters of Rome proceed is the crime of kidnapping for terrorist purposes. In the African country they speak of an intensification of police controls, in particular in Bobo-Dioulasso: with more than half a million inhabitants, this is the second largest city in Burkina Faso and the last place in which the couple was seen. More police and roadblocks. The local authorities themselves have confirmed the maximum effort in the searches. Burkina Faso is not going through an easy period on the security front, it has been the victim for some time of raids by radicalized armed gangs that often target Western citizens. This crisis front led to the resignation of the entire government last week.


BBM


Would Edith and Luca still be in Burkina Faso I wonder?

 

[dotr]

Wondering if E and L might be held in Mali considering that is where other kidnapped people have previously been taken? imo.rbbm.

Jan 2016
“There is a risk that terrorist groups including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) and al-Mourabitoun may cross the borders from Mali and northern Niger into Burkina Faso to carry out kidnap attacks,” its travel advise says.

More than 25 Westerners have been kidnapped in the Sahel region, including parts of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and other nations, since 2008 and many are still being held.

Al-Qaeda has been known to send its own militants or pay criminal gangs to carry out kidnappings on its behalf, sometimes taking foreigners to remote desert areas in northern Mali to be exchanged for multi-million dollar ransom payments."

 

[ZaZara]

Luca ed Edith sarebbero spariti vicino a Pama, al confine col Togo

Luca and Edith would have disappeared near Pama, on the border with Togo

They were there to get their visa at the Customs: the new trail suggested by the son of the Italian consul.

Luca and Edith would have disappeared near the village of Pama, on the border with Togo. It is the new trail that makes headway in Burkina Faso in the case of the young architect from Vigonza and his Canadian friend who disappeared into thin air on 15 December last year. Luca and Edith arrived in Ouagadougou and from here they have ....

BBM

..... drums ....... cliffhanger....... paywall!


This is interesting. Wasn't it said earlier that they had most definitely not crossed the border with Togo?

Pama (8000 inhabitants) is also near the border with Benin. In fact if Luca and Edith were on the main road, the N18, this would lead them into Benin and not into Togo. The entire border between Burkina Faso and Benin is a huge nature area consisting of national parks and reserves that stretches into Niger. The N18 runs west of the national park.

 

[ZaZara]

Italia-Canada: ministro Esteri Moavero incontra omologo Freeland, focus su scomparsa cittadini italiano e canadese in Burkina Faso

Italy-Canada: Foreign Secretary Moavero meets his counterpart Freeland, focus on missing Italian and Canadian citizens in Burkina Faso


The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and his Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, had a meeting today in the margins of the "World Economic Forum" in Davos, Switzerland. The two ministers, reports a note from the Farnesina, discussed the disappearance, in Burkina Faso, of the Italian citizen Luca Tacchetto and the Canadian citizen Edith Blais. They expressed common concern and agreed that close coordination should be maintained on the case. They also agreed that the competent Italian and Canadian authorities would continue to work closely together in order to gather more information on the two missing persons. The two Foreign Secretaries also stressed that the highest priority remains the safety and security of their countrymen.


BBM


Well that's nice for once. I beat the paywall here.