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| Man released over student deaths | Man released over student deaths |
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| A 21-year-old man who was arrested over the deaths of two French students who were set alight in a London flat has been released with no further action. | A 21-year-old man who was arrested over the deaths of two French students who were set alight in a London flat has been released with no further action. |
| Gabriel Ferez, 23, was killed along with his friend Laurent Bonomo, also 23, in New Cross last Sunday. | Gabriel Ferez, 23, was killed along with his friend Laurent Bonomo, also 23, in New Cross last Sunday. |
| The man had been arrested on a street in South London in the early hours of Saturday morning. | The man had been arrested on a street in South London in the early hours of Saturday morning. |
| Police will be in the area near the flat where the students were found dead appealing for information later. | Police will be in the area near the flat where the students were found dead appealing for information later. |
| 'Hiding forever' | |
| The badly burned bodies of Mr Bonomo, from Velaux, and Mr Ferez, from Prouzel, were found with more than 240 stab wounds. | |
| A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Bonomo suffered 80 wounds after he died. | |
| The two men were also gagged before the flat was set alight. | |
| Mr Ferez's parents said in a statement to those behind the killings: "Rest assured that we will not leave you in peace." | Mr Ferez's parents said in a statement to those behind the killings: "Rest assured that we will not leave you in peace." |
| They also said his killer "will not be able to live in hiding forever." | |
| Both men were biochemistry students and were in the third year of a masters degree at Polytech Clermont-Ferrand in central France. | |
| They were in London because they had been chosen to take part in a research project at Imperial College and were due to return home within weeks. |