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"We're known as small-island developing states, but we like to call ourselves large ocean states," says Rima Brown, a young Cook Islander with a geography degree who jokingly calls herself the poster child for deep-sea mining.

Rima works for the Seabed Minerals Authority and much of her time is spent mapping the sea bed.

Despite Macron's show of support, his then-culture minister Rima Abdul-Malak said she would look into withdrawing Depardieu's Legion d'Honneur after footage emerged of him making sexual comments around women in a 2018 documentary filmed in North Korea.

"I was soothing her, telling her not to be afraid, that nothing would happen. She was calling on God and the prophets for help," Rima says.

Her mother Rima is sitting by her bedside, holding a copy of the Quran and praying.