German news sources also say that around 650 hostages were freed during the Algerian attack. That attack thus cannot have been that misled as some people seem to have thought.
The group has announced to attack other facilities as well. The Algerians will be pleased to hear that.
Digest this for a moment: stupid EU idiots seriously want(ed?) to build huge solar farms in these deserts for electricity production that then got delivered to Europe. Of course, so was the plan, they wanted to depend on these solar farms to get rid of their dependency from Russian and ME oil and gas.
Bosch and Siemens have pulled their plugs in that project meanwhile - thankfully.