Purported ISIS video threatens Croatian hostage

August 06, 2015 04:50

In a video purportedly released by ISIS on Wednesday, a group claiming to be ISIS' branch in the Sinai Peninsula threatens to kill a Croatian hostage if Egypt doesn't release female Muslim prisoners in 48 hours.

The apparent hostage in the video identifies himself as Tomislav Salopek.

Kneeling in a jumpsuit in front of a masked, knife-holding man in camouflage, the hostage reads from a paper, saying he was captured on July 22 and works for a French geoscience firm.

Ardiseis Egypt, part of the French firm CGG, said the hostage in the video appears to be Salopek, who it says was a subcontracted worker who was kidnapped in Cairo on July 22.

The Croatian government is "making all the efforts to resolve the difficult situation of the Croatian citizen T.S.," the Croatian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, in an apparent reference to Salopek.

CNN couldn't immediately independently verify the authenticity of the video, which was released on social media.

The ministry said last month that armed men stopped and kidnapped a Croatian national with the initials T.S. in Cairo on July 22 while he was driving to work at a French-owned company.

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