But he was in safe hands, and Mr Wright applauded the courage of his Algerian colleagues in helping the expats escape.
In 1997 the Czech government made a rather silly mistake that lost it control of a bank without putting it in safe hands.
Someone touched me on the hand and said they needed me to calm down, so I swallowed the fear and remembered once again that I was in safe hands.
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When, or if, he does eventually retire, the bank will be in safe hands: those of his 62-year-old chief executive, Charles Snipes, who is said to be even more frugal than his boss.
Because of the lack of transparency, they cannot see whether these volatile new debt instruments are in safe hands or how they will behave in a crisis when everyone is heading for the exits.
Ms Williams raised concerns about the incidents which are occurring in hospitals when patients should be in safe hands and called on Carwyn Jones to "prioritise the spending" and "get to grips" with the situation.
Caroline Elcombe, from the Save Hadlow Tower action group, said the tower was now in "safe hands".
The Civil Nuclear Police Authority insists UK nuclear plants are in "safe hands".
Sir Chris Fox, chairman of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority which oversees the CNC, said security at nuclear facilities in the UK was in "safe hands".
"Every day you fight for this bill, every day trust in you on the NHS ebbs away and every day it becomes clearer: the health service is not safe in your hands, " he concluded.
Was it not Margaret Thatcher herself who had stressed repeatedly that the National Health Service was safe in Conservative hands?
People have to believe that their livelihood is safe in your hands.
Second, keep apprised on current events, do your homework and determine if your money is safe in the hands of government or perhaps better in your hands to pay down debt.
Despite being one of the authors of Europe's Fiscal Compact (which aims to enforce public spending limits on EU members by law) the president has tried to insist that France's welfare state will be safe in his hands.
But with his image as a safe pair of hands in tatters, that may now change.
The choice of Mr Cheney shows confidence on Mr Bush's part - he is not picking someone who will help him massively in the election but instead opting for someone who is competent and a safe pair of hands and would help him in government.
But as several religion-watchers have noted, the church would risk sending an odd signal to the country and the world if it rejected him in favour of a safe, white pair of hands.
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Some previous secretaries of state - say Labour's Paul Murphy - saw their role as staying in the background and providing a discreet safe pair of hands.
Poverty is so widespread in East London, that even the dying are not safe from the hands of thieves.
He was regarded by the leadership as a safe pair of hands, trusted with some of the most sensitive briefs in government and known as one of the most committed modernisers in the government.
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