FRENCH Title: Putsch au Niger: Macron annonce que l’ambassadeur de France est “pris en otage”
Caption: French President Macron says French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held “hostage” and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy in Niamey, Niger: News Outlet Photo via BFMTV.
if they're truly being held hostage, doesnt that make it more likely that France will do some military things?
Niger wants him to leave, but Macron wants to manufacture a reason to intervene militarily.
The French variant of the article says that there is only military rations left to eat at the embassy.
But your post kind of implies that the French embassador is "force fed" military rations? This is a very weird way to translate it.Are they being held hostage though?
The article is a little weird. This is my interpretation, need to look for other sources.
President says that the ambassador is "taken hostage, literally".
Military in Niger wants him out of the country, but French government says that his work is too valuable, he must stay.
Military says " OK, but he can't leave the embassy, Persona Non Grata".Technically the ambassador has either choice of leaving the country or staying inside the embassy. Food is not delivered anymore, leaving him with military rations to eat.
Turns out the French embassy either serves croissants or military rations… And the Nigeriens took the croissants.
Scratch my previous summary. Yours wins the cake.
They probably only had margarine croissants left.
There are actually stories coming out of Niger that suggest that the French tried to smuggle croissants into the embassy but were discovered by Nigerien police.
https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1701656176801231257
Maybe France should just pull out of Niger? Ever thought about that?
The West aren't pulling out of the Sahel until the mineral wealth has been extracted.
No butter? No baguettes? No onions?
Now they have too eat stuff like salmon with rice and vegetables, cassoulet, hare terrine or lamb tajine with only creme caramel or nougat for dessert (this is all stuff that are in the French military rations)
Seriously I hope they will be alright, this must be an extremely stressful situation.
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