(Reuters) - Authorities in Chad released three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses on Sunday, a lawyer for one of the journalists said, shortly after French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived to discuss their fate.
"They are happy, they are free," Jean-Bernard Padare, a Chadian lawyer, told Reuters by phone. He said the seven were collecting their belongings from the city's main law courts.
Other French and Spanish nationals remain in custody facing charges relating to child abduction and fraud after they tried to fly 103 African children to Europe.