Friday, February 4, 2011

The French Egyptian feel abandoned by the Quai d'Orsay

The government spokesman, Baroin said Thursday, Feb. 3 that the French had "no emergency or urgent obligation to stay on Egyptian territory" would return "as soon as possible." But many French people still there complain about the isolation that leaves the Quai d'Orsay. "We really wonder what the embassy expects to establish charter flights to evacuate and start putting people in safety.

Dwindling Air France flights, one flight per day and during the curfew," says and Peggy, who lives in Cairo for five years. "I want to leave but this is impossible for me without the help of the consulate," adds Irenaeus, also in Cairo. If Baroin says the Quai d'Orsay had established a "special device" for French nationals in Egypt, they felt strongly about the lack of return measures.

"At a time when I speak, February 3, 2011 at 8 am 24, the French consulate, unlike most of the embassies in Cairo, still has not received instructions to repatriate the French," indignant Peggy. United States, Germany, but also Morocco, Algeria ... Many states have already sent planes to Egypt.

The British government announced Tuesday its decision to send as a "precaution" a charter in Cairo to repatriate its nationals wanting to leave Egypt. Gerard returned from Luxor on Tuesday after three days of anguish, is still furious: "All domestic flights were canceled to Cairo. Only the English, Italians, Turks had direct flights to Paris Luxor.

The Embassy of France, judging that the French were not in danger, was not planned! "he says indignantly. "We were able to finally get a flight to Paris on a chartered Air Cairo chartered by several agencies [travel] French. The Quai d'Orsay proposed an Air France flight to 3000 euros up from Cairo without flying to go to Cairo ...

" While he admits that he felt safe at Luxor, where the army was present around the government and hotels, he says that fed stoning took place, including on a boat of tourists. As for expatriates, Naomi, a student at Alexandria, expressed the dismay of the community: "We really felt abandoned and left to ourselves by the French government, I and all the French people we met." Until this morning, the consular authorities advised before any stay at home.

A recommendation superfluous in Cairo, many French people are hiding in their homes for fear of being targeted. "Cooped up in my apartment in Alexandria, it makes a week that I have not stepped outside," said Aymeric well. "That's my roommate Egyptian refuels me and lends me money because I don ' have a penny and no one knows where to draw, "he says.

At the height of unrest, he described a climate of extreme tension. "All the neighbors of the building have spent their last nights on the streets, armed with hoes, picks, sticks and even swords, while I had been locked in the apartment after having delivered an arsenal of kitchen knives, just in case.

Between the screams of panic and cries of war spreading from one street to another, and the crossfire of armed robbers and, I confess not to have dropped my knife Lemon. "

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