After the slip, the consequences. Haiti's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that it had summoned the French ambassador to the Caribbean country. The interview should be lively after the “remarks deemed unacceptable” by President Emmanuel Macron accusing Haitian officials of being “completely stupid”.
The head of Haitian diplomacy Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste expressed Thursday afternoon to French diplomat Antoine Michon “the indignation of the Transitional Power in the face of what he considers to be an unfriendly and inappropriate gesture which deserves “be rectified,” according to the ministry’s press release.
This official text specifies that the French ambassador “recognized that these were unfortunate comments” made on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio. “A letter of protest addressed to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot was given to Ambassador Michon, according to the press release.
The head of Haitian diplomacy reacted Thursday to a video shot the day before, outside the presence of the press, and which circulated on social networks, of Mr. Macron as he left the G20 in Rio for Chile. The French head of state was responding, according to his entourage, to a Haitian who questioned him “insistently” by accusing him and Paris “of being responsible for the situation in Haiti”.
“I defended him, they fired him!” »
“There frankly, it was the Haitians who killed Haiti, leaving drug trafficking,” Emmanuel Macron replied. “And there, what they did, the Prime Minister was great, I defended him, they fired him! », he added in reference to the dismissal on November 10 of the head of government Garry Conille, appointed five months earlier, by the Haitian Presidential Transitional Council.
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Since the resignation in April of controversial Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the CPT has been at the head of the executive of this country in the midst of chaos and without a president since 2021. “It’s terrible. It's terrible. And I can't replace him. They are completely stupid, they should never have released it, the Prime Minister was great,” continues the French president, before the video interrupts.
