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UNCOVERED: French nuclear giant orano to face trial over 2010 niger hostage case - Caught on Camera

The Orano logo, the new name of former nuclear giant Areva, pictured outside the company’s headquarters in La Défense, near Paris, on 23 January 2018. AFP - ERIC PIERMONT

French nuclear group Orano is to stand trial in Paris over claims it failed to protect staff from a 2010 Al-Qaeda kidnapping near its uranium mine in Niger.

Fifteen years after one of France’s most harrowing hostage crises, a French court has ordered a trial for nuclear group Areva – now known as Orano – over allegations it underestimated the threat from Al-Qaeda in the Sahara.

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