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"THEY HATE US!" say fleeing French (no blood for cocoa!)
Sydney Morning-Herald (registration required, also posted at Free Republic)
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.
Ivory Coast is now officially a red state.
Most of the evacuees had left behind their homes and their livelihoods, often after many years of condescension and exploitation 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'."
Who would have thought that Rantburg had so many readers in Ivory Coast?
"There is so much hatred in their faces. Why? We have many, many Jewish Ivorian friends. Why so much anti-French hatred?"
It's America's fault, all those soap and toothepaste ads have had an effect on the locals.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=48588