France began evacuating civilians from Niger on Tuesday August 1, days after the military coup in the country. A first plane took off from Niamey in the evening and landed overnight at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle airport. “There are 262 people on board the plane which is an Airbus A330, including a dozen babies”had specified in the evening the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, explaining that the “almost all passengers are compatriots”. In addition to a large majority of French people, Nigeriens, Portuguese, Belgians, Ethiopians and Lebanese also landed, the Quai d’Orsay told the press present at Roissy.
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Paris justifies the evacuation by the “violence that took place” against its embassy on Sunday July 30, during a demonstration hostile to France and by “the closure of the airspace which leaves our compatriots without the possibility of leaving the country by their own means”.
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2023-08-02 12:04:12
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