A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance believed to be carrying French journalist Edith Bouvier leaves the hospital of Hotel Dieu to Rafik Hariri to arrive at Beirut international airport, Lebanon, on Friday March 2, 2012. Bouvier, wounded in a rocket attack during the Syrian troops' onslaught on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr that killed two other journalists, is expected to fly home later Friday, a senior Lebanese security official said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance believed to be carrying French journalist Edith Bouvier leaves the hospital of Hotel Dieu to Rafik Hariri to arrive at Beirut international airport, Lebanon, on Friday March 2, 2012. Bouvier, wounded in a rocket attack during the Syrian troops' onslaught on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr that killed two other journalists, is expected to fly home later Friday, a senior Lebanese security official said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance follows Lebanese police vehicles carrying two injured French journalists who were trapped at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province after they were wounded by the Syrian government forces shelling, to enter the hospital of Hotel Dieu, in Beirut, Lebanon, on early Friday March 2, 2012. Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, have escaped to Lebanon after being trapped in Baba Amr, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said late Thursday. Bouvier was wounded last week in a government rocket attack on a makeshift media center that killed American-born journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik. Bouvier is asking for a European ambassador to accompany any evacuation, said Burhan Ghalioun, head of the opposition Syrian National Council, at a Paris news conference. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanese private security men, left, escort a Lebanese police vehicle which carries one of two injured French journalists who were trapped at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province after they were wounded by the Syrian government forces shelling, to the hospital of Hotel Dieu, in Beirut, Lebanon, on early Friday March 2, 2012. Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, have escaped to Lebanon after being trapped in Baba Amr, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said late Thursday. Bouvier was wounded last week in a government rocket attack on a makeshift media center that killed American-born journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik. Bouvier is asking for a European ambassador to accompany any evacuation, said Burhan Ghalioun, head of the opposition Syrian National Council, at a Paris news conference. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A French cameraman, right, films a Lebanese police carrying one of two injured French journalists who were trapped at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province after they were wounded by the Syrian government forces shelling, to the hospital of Hotel Dieu, in Beirut, Lebanon, on early Friday March 2, 2012. Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, have escaped to Lebanon after being trapped in Baba Amr, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said late Thursday. Bouvier was wounded last week in a government rocket attack on a makeshift media center that killed American-born journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik. Bouvier is asking for a European ambassador to accompany any evacuation, said Burhan Ghalioun, head of the opposition Syrian National Council, at a Paris news conference. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) ? Two French journalists smuggled out of a war-torn Syrian city where they were trapped for nine days returned home Friday, one injured and carried from the plane on a stretcher, the other smiling broadly and punching his fist in the air.
A red ambulance whisked Edith Bouvier to a hospital after she lingered on the special French government aircraft for more than 30 minutes with loved ones and President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The French president greeted the 31-year-old Bouvier, a journalist for Le Figaro, and William Daniels, a photographer, at Villacoublay military airport, west of Paris. Only Bouvier's arm was visible, reaching out to hug dear ones as the stretcher reached the tarmac.
Daniels, in blue jeans, a jacket and wool cap, smiled and raised his right arm after leaving the plane. Neither spoke to journalists.
Sarkozy praised Bouvier's courage and the "almost chivalrous spirit of her partner in misfortune, William Daniels, who never abandoned Edith Bouvier even though he was unhurt and had other possibilities of getting out."
In brief remarks before the pair descended from the plane, Sarkozy criticized Syrian authorities.
"I want to say in the most solemn way that the Syrian authorities will have to answer to international legal authorities for their crimes. The crimes they committed will not go unpunished," he said before entering the aircraft himself to join loved one there talking with the returning journalists.
Both had been caught up in a Syrian government siege of a rebel-held neighborhood in the city of Homs.
Bouvier sustained several fractures to a leg during a rocket attack that killed two Western journalists ? American reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik ? and wounded a British photographer, Paul Conroy.
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