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Bogota, Colombia | 30 May 2012

Colombia’s main rebel group says it plans to release on Wednesday a French journalist it has held for a month after a firefight with Colombian soldiers.

The Venezuelan TV network Telesur broadcast the first video images of a French journalist Romeo Langlois captured a month ago by Colombian rebels. The video, taken by the rebels, shows Langlois, 35, seated and covered with a white towel, having his left forearm sutured for a bullet wound and looking relaxed but pallid as he answers questions from a female guerrilla.

The French journalist disappeared April 28 when FARC fighters attacked security forces that Langlois was accompanying during an operation to destroy cocaine labs. Langlois was on assignment for France24 news network. He has been reporting from Colombia for more than a decade and has also contributed to the French daily Le Figaro.

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