A double suicide attack claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) killed dozens of them, including thirteen American soldiers at Kabul airport, further exacerbating the panic a few days before the scheduled end of the evacuations of people seeking desperately to flee the Taliban regime. Guest of Europe Morning Friday, Clément Beaune, Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, indicated that the evacuations will continue to the end and wished to reassure on a potential wave of migration since the ‘Afghanistan in the coming months.
A total of 100,000 people have been evacuated from the country since the Taliban took power. “We are almost at 3,000 for France, including a majority of Afghans since we had anticipated for our nationals with flights in July and operations since May for people who had worked for us in Afghanistan,” detailed the senior official. After their exfiltration, France is organized to welcome these refugees on its territory. No less than 150 of them arrived in Strasbourg on Thursday. A finding that worries some, who fear a massive influx of migrants in France.
“The country that protects Afghans the most”
“We must not live in the fantasy. I do not believe that we are at the dawn of a migratory wave on Europe as some say to play on fears. We must not scare the French. There is a greater risk today of seeing people die because they are not helped against the Taliban, ”he said. According to him, it is above all a question of first organizing the reception as well as possible. “We will be open to a certain number – a few thousand no doubt – of Afghans in France and in Europe in the coming months”, continued the Secretary of State.
He also wished to recall that France is generally the country which protects the most and grants the most asylum to Afghans. “Even before the fall of the previous regime, there were about 10,000 asylum requests per year in our country with an acceptance rate of 80%. They are often activists, people who risked their skin and who speak our There will undoubtedly be a little more in the coming months but it is our pride and we will continue, “said Clément Beaune.
Finally, if he considered that it was necessary to prevent millions of people from leaving Afghanistan in the coming months, in the interest of the country in question first and foremost, he also insisted on the fact that the priority is for the moment to protect the threatened inhabitants on their own territory. “For these people, France will be there”.
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