Git on them ponies you froggies!
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.
Welcome to our world, Froggie.
Why didn't you just stay? Reason with them? Try to understand their anger? Negotiate?
That's what you have all been demanding of the hateful Yankee imperialists for decades now.
They hate us, say fleeing French... Hmmm I thought this was an article reporting on some French tourists returning from their vaction to Disney...
Welcome to the real world, France. It's a scary place outside your socialist Euro-weenie paradise.
Gee, I can't figure it out.... Up until September 2002, the Ivory Coast government had been peaceful. Then some violent fascists started kidnapping children at schools and the French sent troops and decided to award the Ministries of Defense and Interior to the violent fascists without the consent of the government or the people. Then thousands of people flooded the streets begging the US to save them. But no one listened.
I just can't figure out why the French are unpopular there.
Let them eat expensive Cheese and drink overpriced wine!!
Hey! You can't post just that poster! You need to use the official "Belly Girl" version!.
Exactly
Invite the UN to inspect them for Weapons of Decapitation.
Who are we talking about?
Dan
Africa have been ethnically cleansing their countries.
It has little to do with race. Blacks are killing blacks also. The operative dynamic is tribalism or group. The Japanese and the Koreans are Asians, yet they hate each other. The Germans are Caucasian, as are the Russians and they killed each other by the millions in WWII.
Race is the excuse, not the reason.
Agreed, you got to post bellygirl.
The untold story here is what will happen when some countries (like Sudan) start ethniclly cleansing the hordes of Chinese that have moved there. What will China do? I have thought for some time that China views Africa as prime colonization material, and they won't be too polite about it.
Git on them ponies you froggies!
"We've been through 'hunt the white man'.
What a racist thing to say. Where are Jesse, Reverend Al, Oboma, and Goofy Annan?
Hello, this is the United States. We are not in right now because we are out saving the world.
Please leave a message at the tone and we will get back to you when we return.
If you are France, please hang up and dial this number
1-800-9BL-OWME
Thank you for calling the United States.....BEEEEEEEEP
They are getting practice for when the Muslims decide to take over France.
It looks like the Dutch may fight back.
Why, that's just so "bizarre".
Nothing at all: in this case, we learn nothing about the French, and a great deal about the native-born Africans of that country. This is racism, pure and simple: they are hated merely for being white. And you are too.
The EU is so politically correct. They praise Mugabe in Zimbabwe as he takes everything from the whites and tries to kill them.
They are making the same PC mistake with the Muslims within their borders. They will pay a heavy price.
The Western Euorpeans engaged in this political correctness and pandering to the Muslims. The Europeans give the Muslims welfare, housing and other crap and the Muslims hate them and there will be a civil war.
The Dutch are learning. The lesson now. The EU is filled with Muslims who hate Europeans.
You mean like the Romans were hated for being white?
White oppressors.
I imagine that this hatred has been welling for
decades. Then it explodes. Then you either
send in your army to maintain your "former" colony
or else you cut and run.
MV
Muhammadans are colonizing France as we speak...
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