Marcel Fontaine, born in 1943, died January 20, 1997 in Paris, is a French diplomat, hostage in Lebanon between 1985 and 1988. Biographize the code
Marcel Fontaine is appointed Secretary of Chancery in Beirut in 1982.
On March 22, 1985, he was kidnapped by the fundamentalist Lebanese Islamic Jihad organization with Marcel Carton. The two hostages are joined two months later by the journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann and the researcher Michel Seurat, who dies during his detention. During their detention, the four hostages are humiliated, starved, beaten, deprived of medical care and victims of mock executions. The three survivors are released on May 4, 1988 after more than three years of captivity and a long negotiation led by Jean-Charles Marchiani.
After his release, Marcel Fontaine was appointed vice-consul head of chancery in Melbourne, then in Tananarive, before joining the central administration in December 1991.
He died of lung cancer at the age of 54 at Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris. Notes and edit the code code
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