No ransom. “He offered his medical services to the sick during the period of imprisonment.”

Father Georges Vanderbeusch, the French priest kidnapped in mid-November, was released December 31 without any ransom. In reporting the news picked up by Agence France Presse, a source in the Nigerian fundamentalist group Boko Haram.

‘The management has decided to release the priest for compassion – it was said -. He had offered his medical services to the sick in her period of captivity. The management felt that there was no need to restrain him.”