Should a president really say that? Emmanuel Macron accused the Haitian officials who dismissed Garry Conille, appointed Prime Minister five months ago to try to stabilize his country, of being “completely stupid”, according to a video filmed this Wednesday in Rio, which is circulating on the networks social.
In this video filmed on the sidelines of the G20 before his departure for Chile outside the presence of the press, the Head of State responds, according to his entourage, to a Haitian who questioned him “insistently” by accusing him and France “of being responsible for the situation in Haiti”.
“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 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 cuts off.
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 complete 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”.
