FRENCH Title: Putsch au Niger: Macron annonce que l’ambassadeur de France est “pris en otage”
Caption: French President Macron says French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held “hostage” and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy in Niamey, Niger: News Outlet Photo via BFMTV.
I am pretty sure that they where declared persona none gratta, I butchered that spelling, but they where told to leave, and they refused, this is hardly being held hostage, it is that they have broken the 1 law diplomats have to follow