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Journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels leave Lebanon hospital for France

French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have now left hospital in Beirut and are on their way to the airport from where they will be flown home to France, according to officials.

Sandrine GOMES /France 24
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They spent Thursday night under observation at the Hôtel Dieu de France hospital in Beirut.
The official said that Bouvier, who worked for France’s Le Figaro newspaper, was in a “stable condition”

French president Nicolas Sarkozy indicated that he had spoken on the phone to Bouvier “who was naturally very tired, who has suffered a lot but who knows she is free and that she will soon be treated”, he said.

The editor of France’s Le Figaro newspaper, Etienne Mougeotte said that the the rebel Free Syrian Army had helped with the operation to evacuate the two journalists.

Edith Bouvier and William Daniels had been trapped for several days in Homs in Syria, which has been under extremely heavy bombardment.

Bouvier has a fractured femur, sustained during the bombing which killed French photographer Rémi Ochlik and American journalist Marie Colvin.
 

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