Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reveals
how France is looting Africa
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Giorgia Meloni, who was speaking in a
televised interview, made the remark while
showing a picture of a child working in a gold
mine in Burkina Faso, which is one of the
poorest countries in the world.
She said France prints colonial gold
money for the country, but “in return
demands that 50 percent of everything that
Burkina Faso exports end up in the coffers
of the French treasury.”
“The gold that this child goes down a tunnel
to extract, mostly ends up in the coffers of the
French state,” the Italian prime minister said.
Meloni added, “So, the solution [to the
migrant issue] is not to take the Africans
and bring them to Europe. The solution is to
free Africa from certain Europeans who
exploit it and allow this people to life off
what they have.”
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The French-Italian feud is the latest episode
in a European standoff over where to disembark
refugees picked up after trying to reach Europe
from North Africa.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi
said on November 10 that "France's reaction to
the request to take in 234 migrants, while Italy
has taken in 90,000 this year alone, is totally
incomprehensible in the face of constant calls
for solidarity."
Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also
said Rome wants "an agreement to establish, on
the basis of population, how migrants with a
right to asylum are relocated to various
countries."
Italy, along with Spain, hosts most boats
transporting migrants. Only 164 of the virtually
90,000 migrants who have reached Italy this year
have so far been relocated to other EU states.
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