An experienced mountaineer from France is abducted in an Algerian national park and an international incident ensues. World leaders hunt down a group of suspected killers, only to find that many of them have gone underground and continue to evade justice to this day.
Herve Gourdel (Photo Source) BBC News
Herve Gourdel Tributes (Photo Source) The Daily Mail
Herve Gourdel Coffin & Hiking Pack (Photo Source) International Business Times
Algeria Reference Map (Source) BBC News
Djurdjura National Park Map (Source) Google Maps
Djurdjura National Park Image (Source) Global National Park.com
Episode Source Material
- BBC News: France launches first air strikes on IS in Iraq. By staff.
- France 24: Frenchman kidnapped in Algeria. By staff.
- BBC News: French tourist Herve Gourdel abducted by Algeria militants. By staff.
- BBC News: French hostage Herve Gourdel beheaded in Algeria. By staff.
- BBC News: Profile: Herve Gourdel. By staff.
- Reuters: Hollande confirms execution of French hostage in Algeria. By staff.
- BBC News: Profile: France blames Turkey for ‘jihadi’ arrest fiasco. By staff.
- Aljazeera: ISIL-linked group beheads French captive. By staff.
- The Guardian: French tourist beheaded in Algeria by jihadis linked to Islamic State. By Chris Johnston and Kim Willsher.
- RFI: France outraged by Algerian jihadists murder of French hiker, Iraq airstrikes continue. By staff.
- Tampa Bay Times: Algerian Group Beheads Hostage. By staff.
- USA Today via The News-Star: Video purports French tourist was beheaded by terrorists. By Doug Stanglin via newspapers.com.
- EuroNews: Herve Gourdel family pay tribute and call for tolerance at rallies. By Chris Harris.
- The Daily Mail: Beheaded French hostage will be avenged, country vows as tributes paid to married father of two. By John Hall and Peter Allen.
- RFI: Algeria tracks French hostage’s killers, African condemn jihadist murder. By staff.
- The Daily Mail: Grief of the beheaded French mountain guide’s widow revealed as country mourns his murder with flags at half mast. By Annabel Grossman.
- The Independent: Herve Gourdel: Mountain guide and photographer who was seized and murdered by the Jund al-Khalifa terorist group in Algeria. By Anne Keleny.
- The Associated Press via CTV News: Algeria identifies some kidnappers of French hiker. By Aomar Ouali.
- RFI: Algeria hunts 15 jihadists for Frenchman’s beheading. By staff.
- Chicago Tribune: How risky is it out in the world? By Josh Noel via newspapers.com.
- RFI: Algeria claims five jihadists killed in hunt for French tourist’s killers. By staff.
- Aljazeera: Algeria kills suspect in French beheading. By staff.
- France 24: Algerian army kills suspect in beheading of Frenchman Herve Gourdel. By staff.
- The New Arab: Terrorism fears derail Algeria’s burgeoning tourist industry. By Massinissa Benlakehal.
- BBC News: Algerian army ‘kills jihadist behind Herve Gourdel beheading’.By staff.
- France 24: Algerian army ‘finds’ body of French hiker Herve Gourdel. By staff.
- The Times of Israel: Algerian authorities find body of beheaaded Frenchman. By staff.
- RFI: Body of slain French tourist Herve Gourdel to return home. By staff.
- Yahoo Life: Body of Fremchman slain by jihadists flown home from Algeria. By staff.
- International Business Times: Trial Over French Hiker’s Murder to Open in Algeria. By Abdelhafid Daamache and Salsabil Chellali.
- News 24: Trial over French hiker’s murder to open in Algeria. By staff.
- The National News: Trial to begin in Algeria over murder of French hiker. By staff.
- France 24: Algerian court delays trial of jihadist suspects in French hiker’s murder. By staff.
- The New Arab: Algeria trial over French mountaineer’s murder postponed. By staff.
- Echorouk Online: Justice: “French Mountaineer Herve Gourdel’s File Opened” By staff.
- DZ Breaking: Assasination of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel: Opening of trial. By Hana Saada.
- Aljazeera: Algeria trial opens over kidnapping and murder of French tourist. By staff.
- BBC News: Herve Gourdel: Man sentenced over French Tourist’s killing. By staff.
- French24: Algeria sentences jihadist to death for French hiker’s murder. By staff.
- BBC News: Algeria country profile. By staff.