Brussels, 27/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Press-Communications-Freedom Intergroup held a hearing in Brussels on 26 January on the journalists being held captive in Iraq, after which the Intergroup President Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE, France) urged the Council of the EU to make greater use of the all Member States' diplomatic networks to find the kidnapped journalists. Organised one month after the release in Iraq of Florence Aubenas, journalist for French newspaper La Liberation and her guide and interpreter Hussein Hanoun al Saadi, the hearing focussed on the fate of other journalists in Iraq, like French cameraman Fred Nerac, who disappeared in March 2003, Italian Enzo Badaloni, killed in Iraq in August 2004, French journalist Jean Helene, killed in the Cote d'Ivoire in October 2003 and French Canadian Guy Andre Kieffer, who disappeared in the Cote d'Ivoire in April 2004. Jean-Marie Cavada, himself a journalist before becoming an MEP in June 2004, said that EU foreign ministers had realise that without a free press, the only information available to them would come from belligerent sources. The hearing was attended by Serge July, Editor of Liberation, the parents of Florence Aubenas, French journalist Christian Chesnot and his guide and interpreter Mohammed Al Joundi, both recently liberated after months of hostage in Iraq.