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"Save our families", ask Afghan demonstrators in Paris

2021-08-22T15:16:11.219Z


Several hundred people demonstrated this Saturday, August 22 at Place de la République. Several hundred people, including Afghans, demonstrated Sunday in Paris to demand " the immediate evacuation " to France of threatened Afghan families, a week after the Taliban seizure of power in Afghanistan, noted an AFP journalist. . Read also Should we fear a wave of migration after the fall of Afghanistan? " We demand the repatriation immediately of all families and anyone in danger ," said


Several hundred people, including Afghans, demonstrated Sunday in Paris to demand "

the immediate evacuation

" to France of threatened Afghan families, a week after the Taliban seizure of power in Afghanistan, noted an

AFP

journalist.

.

Read also Should we fear a wave of migration after the fall of Afghanistan?

"

We demand the repatriation immediately of all families and anyone in danger

," said to

AFP

a 31-year Afghan refugee Ezat, social worker in a shelter in France, saying "

very worried

”, among the demonstrators at Place de la République.

"

Afghans lives matter

"

The signs and banners read: “

evacuation now

”, “

Afghans welcome

” or, in English, “

save our family

” and “

afghans live matter

” (Afghans lives matter).

"

We are there for our families, they are not secure there, we would like them to come here, if they stay, they will die,

" assured Muhammad Younas, 24, an employee in the cleaning sector.

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"

All for nothing

": the angry cry of the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan

"

A humanitarian disaster is on the way, we must prevent it now, open humanitarian corridors so that people who want to go out can get out,

" said Reza Jafari, president of the Children of Afghanistan association and elsewhere, co-organizer of the gathering.

In a leaflet, the associations mentioned the women and girls, journalists, activists and humanitarian workers to be protected.

Read also Afghan refugees: France is trying to organize

"

The situation in Afghanistan is really terrible,

" testified Osman, who arrived in France ten years ago and whose wife is still there.

Since the Taliban took power, "

they have gradually started house searches

", assures the former Afghan journalist, for whom the Taliban "

have not changed

".

The organizing associations are asking for a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, "

from this week

".

In an interview published by

the Journal du Dimanche,

the minister assured Sunday that "

All the cases (of Afghans wanting to be exfiltrated) which have arisen - and their number is growing day by day with hundreds of names - s (er) instructed

”.

See also Afghan refugees: "A biased controversy"

Since the establishment of the airlift set up after the fall of Kabul on Sunday, the French army has transported more than 600 people to Paris on five flights, the vast majority of them Afghans.

A sixth flight is expected Sunday evening at Roissy.

SEE ALSO -

Afghanistan: France continues to evacuate its nationals in Kabul

Source: lefigaro

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