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PARIS (AP) - Chad's president said Thursday he was "ready to pardon" six French aid workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap over 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
President Idriss Deby, speaking on Europe-1 radio, also called for a planned European peacekeeping force to quickly deploy to Chad to ease pressure on his own forces, which have been stretched by a rebel attack on the capital this week.
Deby told the station he could only issue a pardon after a French request for one, but that "I am ready to pardon" the six sentenced to eight years of hard labor by a Chad court.
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