“It’s very, very difficult to understand how the children were able to survive.” Ingrid Betancourt, a former FARC hostage, was invited to react this Saturday on BFMTV to the discovery of children more than a month after their disappearance in the Colombian Amazon jungle.
Lesly, Soleiny, Tien Noriel and Cristin survived a small plane crash in early May near San José del Guaviare in Colombia. They were extracted from the jungle on Friday, June 9.
Salute the “extraordinary strength” of children
Referring to a “completely exceptional story”, the former Colombian-French hostage, released in 2008, believes that it is “very, very difficult to survive if you are not trained to do so” in this hostile environment.
“It’s another planet, all the reference points are distorted,” he said again.
For the former hostage, Lesly, Soleiny, Tien Noriel and Cristin demonstrated “extraordinary strength” and a true “survival instinct” to last forty days without outside help.
Source: BFM TV
