The Foreign Ministry announced today that it is trying to obtain the release of three French nationals arrested by Libyan authorities last January 13 and held incommunicado in a Tripoli jail since then. Two are construction company technicians accused of espionage for Israel. No specific charge has been leveled against the third man.
The Foreign Ministry said the French Consul in Tripoli has visited the prisoners, identified as Christian Dionisi, 52, Jean-Luc Bachman, 45 and Jean Pichon, 35. Their incarceration was disclosed when the Libyans released a fourth French engineer they had arrested at the same time but later allowed to leave the country.
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