Romeo Langlois

A reporter freed after 33 days at the mercy of Colombian rebels headed home to Paris Thursday with a letter from his captors for French President Francois Hollande.

Colombian rebels freed a French journalist kidnapped 33 day ago, releasing him in a remote jungle village in a move the French president hailed as a "happy end" to the saga.

A French journalist held by leftist rebels for more than a month was released Wednesday in a small village in the southern Colombia jungle, an AFP journalist witnessed.

A humanitarian delegation traveled to southern Colombia ahead of the expected release by FARC rebels of a French journalist held in the jungle for more than a month.

Colombian rebels on Monday sent "proof of life" of a French journalist held captive for a month in the jungle, days before his expected release.

The first images of a French journalist held captive for a month by leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle were broadcast on Monday, days before his expected release.

Colombia's leftist FARC rebels said they will free on Wednesday a French television journalist who has been held in captivity by one of their units for almost a month.

The leftist Colombian guerrilla group FARC has said it will free on Wednesday a French journalist taken prisoner nearly a month ago.

The leftist Colombian guerrilla group FARC has said it will free on Wednesday a French journalist taken prisoner nearly a month ago.

Marxist rebels holding French journalist Romeo Langlois hostage for almost a month said Sunday they will free him, a Red Cross official said.

France's president-elect Francois Hollande was plunged straight into the European economic debate as doubts over his plans and turmoil in Greece threatened to tip the eurozone back into crisis.

Leftist guerrillas have said they want a "debate" on the way the press covers Colombia's insurgency, Latin America's oldest, before they will free a French journalist captured last month.

Colombian authorities are unsure that leftist FARC guerrillas took a French reporter hostage, President Juan Manuel Santos said, nearly a week since Romeo Langlois went missing.

A French television journalist went missing in Colombia following a leftist rebel attack on an army column that claimed four lives in the country's south, military officials said.