"Was a ransom paid or not?" a lawyer for Mehdi Nemmouche, a convicted French jihadist, seeks to summon François Hollande, then President of the Republic when journalists Nicolas Hénin, Didier François, Edouard Elias and Pierre Torres were held hostage by the Islamic State group in Syria. Nemmouche's lawyer, Francis Vuillemin, says if a ransom was paid by France it raises the question of "terrorist financing. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES