A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unheard of assault on Western journalists in Mali, where a French-led military operation this year aimed to clear out Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France Mali Journalists Killed
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried upon arrival at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unheard of assault on Western journalists in Mali, where a French-led military operation this year aimed to clear out Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France Mali Journalists Killed
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unheard of assault on Western journalists in Mali, where a French-led military operation this year aimed to clear out Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France Mali Journalists Killed
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried upon arrival at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unheard of assault on Western journalists in Mali, where a French-led military operation this year aimed to clear out Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France Mali Journalists Killed
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unheard of assault on Western journalists in Mali, where a French-led military operation this year aimed to clear out Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign minister says the country is shifting 150 troops to the northern Mali city of Kidal after two French journalists were kidnapped and killed while reporting there.
The two journalists’ bodies were returned to Paris on Tuesday, greeted by President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who told Radio France International that about 150 French forces in Mali, out of more than 2,000, would be sent to Kidal to reinforce troops already in the troubled city.
Ghislaine Dupont, a senior correspondent for RFI, and Claude Verlon, a production technician, were killed Saturday after finishing an interview with a Tuareg rebel leader. A senior Malian official has said five people are in custody, and Fabius told RFI that the investigation is continuing along with French operations there.
