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Hollande receives four French victims' families of MH 370: Elysee

Xinhua, September 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

French President Francois Hollande received Friday the families of the four French citizens who lost their lives in the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, said a press release of the Elysee.

Hollande expressed support of France to the victims' families who remain uncertain about the specific circumstances of the disappearance, said the Elysee.

He also assured the engagement of all services of the French government to support the ongoing judicial procedures in France and abroad to shed light on this plane crash.

On Thursday, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins announced that the piece of plane debris found on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion at the end of July was certainly a part Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reported missing in March 2014.

On Aug. 6, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed that the flaperon belongs to the Boeing 777, 515 days after it disappeared while authorities in France cited "very strong presumption" that it was the case.

The flight, a Boeing 777-200, has disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with a total of 239 people on board, most of them Chinese. Endit