NEW DELHI:”I thank God,” said a beaming Caterina Radu, wife of the abducted Romanian diplomat who arrived home safe and sound recently.
“He is a little slimmer,” she said of her husband. “He has lost about seven-eight kg.”
But Radu and her two sons are happy, their long, agonizing wait is over. “I was expecting him on Sunday. I was a bit disappointed, had lost hope though it would fast several more days. Every time heard the car stopping, I would think maybe he had come,” said Mrs. Radu.
“Today, I heard the car, heard the door, but I was upset, I thought I would not go to the window.” Then she heard the bell ring and there he was, “I couldn’t believe it is not nice to cry, but today, I cried”.
Musing “They (the militants) kept their word, they released him”, Was she grateful to his captors? “I thank God.” And what of the Indian government? A shrug, and a smile. “Let’s talk of some other thing”.
Immediately after her husband returned, she says she informed the Romanian embassy and then some of her journalist friends, “Not the police”.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 6, 1991
