Posted on 11/12/2004 8:00:34 AM PST by Ginifer
Some 1600 French people arrived at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris with tales of fear and horror after days of anti-French attacks in the Ivory Coast.
Most of the evacuees had left behind their homes and their livelihoods, often after many years in Africa.
Helene, who lived for 32 years in Abidjan running a printing business, told French radio: "We spent five hours on the roof, listening to them taking our apartment to pieces and then breaking everything they couldn't remove. Our life is there; we have nothing in France. The radio was screaming at everyone to rid themselves of the 'imperialist pigs', the 'Satans'."
"There is so much hatred in their faces. Why? We have many, many Ivorian friends. Why so much anti-French hatred?"
At least four people were taken to hospital on arrival, and psychologists waited to offer help if needed.
Christophe Larouille, from Angers, said: "We've been through 'hunt the white man'.
"I was lucky; the helicopter landed almost on my lawn, in the middle of the night. AdvertisementAdvertisement
"There was a knock on my door, and a voice said, 'You've got three seconds to make your mind up.' I took off sitting on a pile of ammunition, like in a film. I saw someone who had lost an eye. The soldiers said there were deaths, people had been decapitated, women had been raped."
Jose, a 67-year-old administrator, emerged into the arrivals hall bringing with him just the clothes he was wearing: "A pair of espadrilles, a pair of shorts, two T-shirts and a briefcase that my neighbours managed to rescue by some miracle," he said.
He told Le Monde: "I was attacked twice over the weekend. The first time I managed to talk them out of it, helped with money and a bottle of whisky. When they came back I took refuge in the home of some African friends. My house was looted and completely sacked. They turned up with trucks. There's not a needle left."
A French official said between 4000 and 8000 of its 14,000 citizens wanted to leave, a number that would make it one of the largest evacuations of Africa's post-independence era.
Hmmmm. Everybdy hates the Frogs.
What's this telling us?
MV
BECAUSE YOU'RE FRENCH MORONS.
Is the Cote d'Ivoire now a red state?
They need to sit down and do some serious soul searching in order to determine why these people are acting out like this.
SARCASM!
Nah, they're French, they'll probably wind up paying the looters reparations.
I thought this was going to be about the liberal exodus from the US.
NO BLOOD FOR COCOA!!!
Do you suppose they'll re-name it officially
"Ivory Coast"? Speak English!
As the French "empire" continues its slide
into oblivion...
MV
"A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature." George Orwell
Hello French folk??? Real world calling? Get a grip.
BTTT
is this another ROP (tm) problem or just more people who hate the french?
Have they demanded the U.S. (oops, I mean the U.N.) do something about this yet? Maybe we can write a resolution.
They still don't get it, do they?
Will the victory over Ivory Coast get France an invite to the big dance? This has to hurt their strength of schedule.
As Vitale would say "Ivory Coast are you kiddin' me? That is cupcake city babeeee!!!!"
Old Europe is and their colonial fiefdoms are helpless victims without their alliance with the U.S.
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