French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said “colonialism
was a grave mistake,” and called for “turning the page” on the past
during a visit to Ivory Coast, a former French colony in West
Africa.
Macron, speaking in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, said France
was often viewed as having a “hegemonistic view and the trappings
of colonialism that was a grave mistake and a fault of the
Republic.”
During his election campaign for presidency Macron had created a
storm by calling France’s colonisation of Algeria a “crime against
humanity”.
In a 2017 TV interview, he said French actions in Algeria, which
achieved independence in 1962 after eight years of war, were
“genuinely barbaric, and constitute a part of our past that we have
to confront by apologising”.
AFP
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