Moroccan Mediation Helps Release German Abducted in Mali

Moroccan intelligence played a vital part in releasing German relief worker Jörg Lange who was held hostage for four years and a half in Mali, wrote German media outlet “Der SPIEGEL”.
The German national, aged 63, was set free by his captors and handed to the Moroccan mediators on Dec. 8, 2022. He was then taken, safe and sound, to the German embassy in Bamako, and received by agents of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) (German criminal police).
The SPIEGEL said the Moroccan intelligence services made contacts with the Islamist groups in the Sahel region to help set free Lange.
The German crisis cell had attempted many times in the past to rescue its national but in vain. The Kidnappers had required a seven-figure ransom.
The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) kidnaps regularly foreigners to exchange them later for huge ransoms.