back in France after two years of captivity in the Sahel

“It is a particularly moving moment, a little out of time. Olivier Dubois, who leaves this plane alone, very smiling, particularly relaxed, who arrives and literally throws himself into the arms of his sister Canèle, for a long and very moving embrace. Then he also throws himself into the arms of the President of the Republic“, reports Josselin Debraux, from Villacoublay airport. Olivier Dubois, “particularly talkative, seemed very happy to be there, very fit after 711 days of detention“.

Medical examinations and debriefing with the French authorities

Olivier Dubois was then able to find his two children “away from the cameras, then his father and his sister, who came specially from Briançon, who told us, a few minutes before finding him, ‘I tremble at the idea of ​​finally being able to touch him‘”, relates Josselin Debraux. The program, for Olivier Dubois, “these are medical examinations in the next few days, then a debriefing with the French authorities, but for the moment, place for the reunion with his family, in the intimacy“, concludes Josselin Debraux.