The terrorist group Boko Haram is to detain more than 200 girls. Now leader Shekau has, according to news agency AFP can record a video film showing the abductees in full-body veil and in prayer.
The Islamist group Boko Haram has released a new video on Monday . In the 17- minute film , the terrorists show of them kidnapped schoolgirl , reports the AFP news agency , which is present the video claims to be . The leader of the group , Abubakar Shekau says in it according to AFP , the girls were converted to Islam . They would only be freed when all imprisoned Islamists would be released in return.
In the film, around 130 girls were seen with a full-body veil while praying in an unknown rural location , the agency reported .
Fighters of Boko Haram had mid-April attacked a school in the northeast of Nigeria and kidnapped 276 students. Some were able to escape , 230 are still missing . CNN spoke with one of the girl who managed to escape. She says: “I’m scared . ” They were just running and running , to get away from the kidnappers. A week ago, the terrorist group abducted eleven other girls.
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The United States, Britain and France send between police and military experts to Nigeria to help in the search for the girls. The Nigerian government had come under strong international pressure because they had reacted only slowly to the kidnapping.
French President François Hollande suggested to hold a summit of African heads of state. Together with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, he had suggested a meeting on security in West Africa, he said. This should take place next Saturday in Paris, “if countries agree”. The UK, the EU and the U.S. should be there.
Under the hashtag # bringbackourgirls showed their solidarity with Twitter and the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, with the kidnapped students.
The radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which is also referred to as Nigeria’s Taliban, committed since 2009 repeatedly attacks on police, army and authorities, but also to churches and schools. This year alone, about 1,500 people were killed in attacks by the group. The original goal of Boko Haram to establish an Islamic state in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria is increasingly receded into the background in the face of violence.
