There was still no news of Yves Lambelin until Tuesday afternoon, the CEO of the Sifca Group, and Stephane Frantz Di Rippel (photo), director of Novotel Ivory Coast, abducted Monday at the Novotel Hotel in Abidjan by soldiers of the former President Laurent Gbagbo. Among the hostages are also one Beninese and one Malaysian.
Stephane Frantz Di Rippel is well known in Togo where he led Hotel Mercure-Sarakawa for two years in Lomé.
He was appointed in late 2010 in Ivory Coast to manage a part of the Accor group hotels.