The bodies of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were flown into Paris from Damascus
The bodies of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were flown into Paris from Damascus Sunday.
Relatives of Ochlik, who was 28, were there to meet his coffin as the regular Air France flight, via Amman, touched down at Charles de Gaulle airport in the French capital, an airport source said.
Colvin and Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in Baba Amr neighborhood of the Syrian city Homs on February 22. The bodies had been formally identified in Damascus on Friday by French and Polish diplomats.
On Saturday in Syria, France's ambassador to Damascus Eric Chevallier confirmed that the bodies were placed aboard the Air France flight.
The body of Colvin was expected to be flown on to the United States on Monday or Tuesday, according to a representative of her newspaper, Britain's The Sunday Times.
French reporter Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro newspaper and British photographer Paul Conroy were wounded in the same attack that killed their colleagues.