Tourists, businessmen or binationals. They hang around half-closed airports or line up in front of the French consulates. Since the end of last week, 110,000 to 130,000 French nationals, spread around the world, want to return to France and are getting impatient. If the policy of "repatriation" of French people stranded abroad may have seemed confused in recent days, it is because Paris has to face a completely new situation.
" We have never seen in history a stop to international air traffic ," said an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And also because the problem arose suddenly, in a few hours, when a hundred countries suddenly decided to close their borders to French nationals, sometimes interrupting overnight their flights to France, which became in a few one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
"Show composure and patience"
In theory, the strategy of the
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