BREAKING: The first repatriated French people arrived in Paris last night
According to recent reports, the following story has emerged from the international scene.
Cries of children, long hugs and a few tears: the first flight organized to repatriate French people stranded in the Middle East since the start of the war in Iran arrived early this Wednesday morning at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport from Oman. The plane chartered by Air France left Muscat, capital of the sultanate, in the early evening and landed shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday north of Paris. Seats reserved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for people stuck in Dubai This “hybrid flight” transported both customers and company staff as well as “many families, young children, pregnant women, a summer camp”, passengers “almost all of whom were in Dubai” indicated Minister Éléonore Caroit to journalists present in the terminal. The flight from Muscat, in Oman, arrives at Fiumicino airport with passengers sent back to Italy, in Rome, on Tuesday March 3, 2026. (Valentina Stefanelli/LaPresse via AP) /ROPH102/26062782616220/ITALY OUTPUT; MANDATORY CREDIT/2603032300 – Valentina Stefanelli/AP/SIPAA hundred places had been reserved by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs for the most “vulnerable” people, said the Minister Delegate in charge of the Francophonie, international partnerships and French people abroad. “The idea is to multiply this type of system so that as many French people as possible can return safely,” she said. added.Flights from Egypt for people coming from IsraelThe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, indicated on France 2 that there would be “several flights” this Wednesday, in particular one transporting French nationals present in the United Arab Emirates and “another which will leave from Egypt to be able to take away some of our compatriots […] the most vulnerable from Israel. After the Israeli-American attack against Iran on Saturday and the reprisals of the Islamic Republic against the Gulf monarchies and Israel, the airspaces of many countries were closed. arrived on Saturday morning in the United Arab Emirates with their children aged 4 and 9 “almost at the start of the bombings”, recalls Marie. “We were disconnected, and we were in a part of the city where we could not hear the bombings”, she says. “We learned from our families in France that it was starting to smell not very very good,” adds this Air France employee. 400,000 French people present in the region Alongside Philippe Tabarot, the Minister of Transport, Éléonore Caroit insisted on a “very volatile” context, with “airspaces which can open and close, corridors which are being put in place which can be suspended”. Find here all the news linked to the war in Iran and the Middle EastSome 400,000 French nationals are present in the fifteen countries affected by the conflict, and more are reporting to the consular authorities “but not all want to return to France” specifies the delegate minister. In four days, the war in the Middle East has caused the cancellation of 19,000 flights, according to the specialized data provider Cirium.
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