In a video filmed on Wednesday November 20 in Rio de Janeiro and which is circulating on social networks, French President Emmanuel Macron estimated that the Haitian officials who fired Garry Conille, appointed prime minister five months ago to try to stabilize the country, were “completely stupid”.
In these images filmed on the sidelines of the G20, outside the presence of the press, before his departure for Chile, the Head of State responds, according to his entourage, to a Haitian who questioned him “insistently”, by accusing him and France “to be responsible for the situation in Haiti”. “There, frankly, it was the Haitians who killed Haiti, leaving drug trafficking”replied Emmanuel Macron. “And there, what they did, the prime minister was great, I defended him, they fired him! »he added, in reference to the dismissal of Garry Conille by the Haitian presidential transition council.
“It’s terrible. It's terrible. And I can't replace him. They are complete idiots, they should never have released it, the Prime Minister was great”he continues, before the video interrupts. Emmanuel Macron then mentioned the Haitian crisis Thursday during a speech on the relationship with Latin America delivered to the Chilean Congress in Valparaiso. “France will continue to support the Haitian people and support all initiatives aimed at restoring security and recreating a path towards a stable political situation. Haitians deserve it »he said.
Plagued by political, security, socio-economic and humanitarian crises, fueled by the violence of gangs who control 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, this Caribbean country is in chaos. The decision to dismiss Garry Conille from his functions came on November 10 when the Transition Council wanted to change officials in the ministries of justice, finance, defense and health, against its advice. For Garry Conille, “the resolution of the Presidential Transitional Council (…) is clearly tainted with illegality”.
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