President Nicolas Sarkozy: Has a Thug Inherited Françafrique?
IG Research Bureau
May 07, 2007
In mid-June of 1998, just four years after the French genocide in Rwanda, France was again in Africa, this time in Congo-Brazzaville. And like they did four years earlier, the French NGOs: Cimade, Agir ici and Frères des hommes carried out protests in France that were utterly ignored by France’s elite establishment media. Regarding official France, Jean-Arnold de Clermont, the president of Fédération protestante de France would lament in the Fall of 1999 that he was “shocked by the complacent attitude of the French embassy in Congo, and if it is true that the French army was training Mr. Nguesso’s militia, I’ll be very worried about the future. The same thing happened in Rwanda and we know how that turned out.” In a war sponsored by France and ELF, about 250,000 defenseless Africans in the Pool of the Congo will die. Mr. Jean-Arnold de Clermont fears came true. In a morbid conspiracy of silence, there was a complete media black out in France. A journalist for TF1 would say in December of 1998 that “we wanted to mobilize a team in Brazzaville, but we were blocked at both ends.” In Paris and Brazzaville (François-Xavier Verschave). French media barons freely acquiesced to the diktats of the Elysée Palace forbidding any coverage of the carnage in Congo-Brazzaville, a carnage that had the fingerprints of Jacques Chirac and the françafrique village. These are the same media barons French presidential candidate François Bayrou has warned Sarkozy is very close to, in addition to the big businesses like the Bolloré and Bouygues Groups whose thuggish and corrupt practices in Africa has enabled so much deviance on the continent, enabled by French surrogates masquerading as African heads of state.
In 1999, Nicolas Sarkozy proudly stood in court as a character witness for one Charles Pasqua in the latter’s defamation suit against French economist and author, François-Xavier Verschave, regarding the publication of his book on French crimes in Africa, La Françafrique: le plus long Scandale de la République. During the course of the trial, Mr. Pasqua’s networks and dealings with what is now the genocidal regime in Khartoum were exposed. Today, Mr. Pasqua is under indictment for illegal arms dealing in Angola. But he now has as a character witness, the president of France.
France has elevated herself to a nation and people with a global view of life that she believes she must propagate, génocide oblige, to the rest of the world, especially in Africa. They call it their mission civilisatrice. In Africa, institutionalized under Charles de Gaulle’s 5th republic, it is a nefarious and criminal network composed of French politicians, businessmen and journalists along with their African surrogates called françafrique. It is a political disposition that in essence considers the African as sub-human and it is a doctrinaire approach regarding France’s dealings with Africa that Mr. Sarkozy is positioning himself to perpetuate. The command and control of the mafia is the Cellule Africaine at the Elysée Palace under the monopolized direct control of the president of France, that contrary to the promise of the other candidates in the recent French elections, Sarkozy has promised to maintain.
And while Mr. Sarkozy rhapsodizes about a rupture with the past, he has refused any reform of Charles de Gualle's 5th republic that for defenseless Africans has represented repeated coups, massacres, genocides and the institutionalization of a culture of tyrannical corruption, where French advisers still call the shots in countries like Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic and la République du Cameroun. Where Mr. Bayrou speaks of “the 5th republic that no longer works, wherever there is monopoly of power, pluralism should be instituted. Enough of concentrated power,” Mr. Sarkozy is preparing to use the same instruments to achieve the same aims for his business friends and African surrogates. His homage to Omar Bongo Odimba six weeks ago in Paris, a dinosaur of the françafrique salon speaks for itself.
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Mr. Sarkozy, with his reputation for “brutality” and his “taste for intimidation and menace” assumes the mantle of françafrique with attributes that fit perfectly with the dispensation of French surrogates in Africa like the Biyas, Bongos, Nguessos. His meeting with the puppet-tyrant of Gabon is a declaration of his intention to pursue the criminal Gaullist policies that have engendered genocides in Africa in complicity with France’s tyrannical, authoritarian and corrupt surrogates.
Mr. Sarkozy's pronouncement about instituting morality in French political life does not apply to France’s doctrinaire approach to Africa. After all did not François Mitterrand, Africa’s socialist friend, speaking of the genocide in Rwanda dismissed it by saying “in such places a genocide is not important.”?
Mr. Sarkozy, a fear monger and son of Hungarian immigrants who fancies himself more royal than all the Kings of France should be prepared to concede that his apparent view of Africa, as represented by his friend Omar Bongo Odimba, stands in furious conflict with the progressive, proud and independent view of Africa represented by the likes Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. Sarkozy has chosen his side, and progressive and independent Africa must confront him squarely based on his choice.
Mr. Sarkozy last year, in boastful and disdainful terms, dismissed Africa as a continent that France does not need economically. Therefore, as he has promised and ironically so, that when he makes his first international trip, it will be to Africa; we’ll expect him to end the practice whereby the financial reserves of the African CFA zone countries are stored in the French treasury and commence the immediate and complete withdrawal of all French expeditionary forces on the continent that have engaged in numerous coups, massacres and genocides in Africa. In the Southern Cameroons, that means removing that criminal racketeering outfit called Operation Aramis from our land, for starters.
