Kidnap shocks Bianca

Press, 20 November 1981, Page 7

Kidnap shocks Bianca

NZPA-Reuter Miami A shaken Bianca Jagger said yesterday that she and several other Americans saw armed men take Salvadorean refugees back across the border into El Salvador from a small Honduran town on Tuesday. Mrs ' Jagger, the former wife the rock singer, Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, said about 40 refugees were taken out of a camp at La Virtud, in neighbouring Honduras. in two groups, some of

them by uniformed Salvadorean soldiers. All but seven were released after their captors realised they were being followed and filmed, said Mrs Jagger, her hands trembling and her voice hushed. “The lives of refugees are in danger. There were refugees taken away out of the country in front of our eyes,” said the Nicaraguan-born Mrs Jagger, who was accompanying a delegation from international relief agencies and who has been active in

Central American refugee causes. The first group of men, dressed in civilian clothes but carrying Ml 6 rifles and sophisticated radio equipment, grabbed 30 refugees, Mrs Jagger said. “We managed to follow them. We managed to get them away, but there are seven that are still held. There were women, men and there were pregnant women. The women with children were being struck with the rifle (butt) of the rifle.”