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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 22 November 2024
1. Various exteriors of French Embassy in Haiti
2. Various of street scenes in Port-au-Prince
3. Bernett talking to another man in the street
4. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Nicolas Jean Bernett, truck driver:
“Allow me the expression – this is complete rubbish. Emmanuelle Macron must revise the points of view concerning the Haitians. Haitians are not animals they thought we were in the past, in the times of slavery.”
5. Chalmers talking on the phone ++ MUTE ++
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Camile Chalmers, economist Executive Secretary of PAPDA, the Haitian Advocacy Platform for an Alternative Development:
“Indignation, a lot of indignation because, obviously, it is a crude word that shows the total ignorance of history and also an interference. The President does not have the right to say this about another country. This is a clear show of contempt and colonial arrogance that is manifested in relation to Haiti, and we cannot accept it.”
7. Chalmers during interview
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Camile Chalmers, economist Executive Secretary of PAPDA, the Haitian Advocacy Platform for an Alternative Development:
“Not only do they have a historical responsibility for reparations and restitution in relation to the ransom for independence. They also have some responsibility for the chaotic situation that Haiti is experiencing today.”
9. Various of people on the streets
STORYLINE:
Haitians reacted Friday with indignation to comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron recorded at the G20 summit in Brazil earlier this week.
The video, recorded from a distance, shows Macron being approached by a Haitian man blaming France for the dire situation in Haiti.
Macron responded by calling the transitional council "total morons" for firing former Prime Minister Gary and blamed Haitians for turning the country into a narco-state.
The video recorded on Wednesday did not go viral on social media until Thursday, causing indignation in Haiti, with the government summoning the French ambassador to demand explanations.
The members of the Transitional Presidential Council, which now governs Haiti, did not make any public statements regarding the French President’s comments, but for the people in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the relationship with the former colonizer was never good.
“This is complete rubbish,” said truck driver Nicolas Jean Bernett. “The French still think of us as animals like in the past times of slavery,” added Bernett.
Camille Chalmers, an economist and Executive Secretary of PAPDA, the Haitian Advocacy Platform for an Alternative Development. said the feeling was of “indignation and the crude words (by Macron) show contempt and ignorance of Haitian history.”
Chalmers went on to say that France owes Haiti a debt.
France demanded payment for the loss of property taken over by the free slaves- debilitating costs of the successful slave revolt that made Haiti the world’s first black republic in 1804.
“Not only do they have a historical responsibility for reparations and restitution in relation to the ransom for independence. They also have some responsibility for the chaotic situation that Haiti is experiencing today,” said Chalmers.
On the 5th of November, the transitional council replaced interim Prime Minister Garry Conille, marking further turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti.
AP Video by Pierre Luxama
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