Two Utah women are pleading for their son/stepson to be returned safely after they said he was wrongfully detained in a failed plot to overthrow the government
by Paul Nelson, KUTV of Congo . of Congo .All they can do is wait for the State Department to free the two Utah men arrested in Congo , but the images they’ve seen had them terrified.
Thompson was invited to travel through several countries in Africa with his long-time friend, Marcel Malanga. Malanga is the son of Christian Malanga, the man accused of plotting the attack. “Tyler, has been with friends with Marcel for years. They’ve been playing football together," Higbee said. "Every summer, Marcel would go see his dad just like any divorced couple. He would go spend summers with his dad in Africa.”
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