French Soldier Makes Daring Escape After Gang Kidnap Ordeal in Colombia
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The Colombian soldier of the French Foreign Legion, kidnapped on 6 August by guerrillas, managed to escape them, announced Monday the French army staff.
Colombian corporal José Olger Melo Charry, a member of the French Foreign Legion, who was kidnapped in early August 2026 in the southwest of the country, is free. The man, in his thirties, managed to escape his captors, the Central General Staff (EMC) guerrilla group, a splinter group of the former FARC.
A Colombian soldier from the French foreign legion managed to escape guerrillas who kept him kidnapped in Colombia after a four-day walk, and...
Captured at the beginning of August by dissidents of the Farc, José Olger Melo Charry distorted the company of his captors before walking four days in the Colombian Cordillera. The 35-year-old legionnaire finally joined a police station alone.
José Olger Melo Charry, a Franco-Colombian corporal who had been involved in the French army for four years, was staying in his home country when he was abducted in early August.
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