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.
NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE!
I don't think it has anything to do with nationality, it has everything to do with race.
If you haven't noticed lately, several countries in Africa have been ethnically cleansing their countries.
I like the french family in my community... but it still a bit funny.
Were they leaving the Ivory Coast or America?
Now that you have arrived in France remember this, Living there with you are many blacks and Islamic Arabs , and they hate you just as bad as the ones where you left, The only thing saving you right now is that they havent large enough numbers, but it wont be long now and there wont be any place left to run.
Why so much anti-French hatred?
It’s not you they hate personally, sweetie, it’s the annoying French Culture that drives them to murder.
That will not even get them a raised eyebrow from the un-creeps!
You think this is funny?
France, they're not the only one's who hate you...
You know the funniest thing about it is that France has been allowing people from this and similar countries to flood into France for years. How long until they're playing "Hunt the white man" inside French boarders?
Not long -- I hope!
Isn't that what Bill Maher is saying?
Could it be the frogs are arrogant swine?
I guess the French are finally understanding what people have been saying for hundreds of years.
"The French are as worthless as the sole on your shoe."
Joseph Stalin, 1942
Why so much anti-French hatred?"
"No one ever chooses italy," Hank Scorpio
Oh, those dreadful French cowboys!
The elephant in the livingroom.
LOL....Frogs.
You suppose they still want to be known as Cote d'Ivoire anymore after this?
Ivory Coast = Dien Bien Phu all over again. BWWAAAAAAAA NO BLOOD FOR COCOA!
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