Original title: French media: macron was urged to "ask for forgiveness" in Africa
According to Agence France Presse, Montpellier, France, on October 8, young people from all over Africa attacked "colonialism", France's "arrogance" or "paternalism" and directly contradicted French President macron at a French African summit held in Montpellier, southern France, on Friday local time.
It is reported that this unprecedented summit was not attended by African heads of state. At a meeting, 11 young people from Mali, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and other countries spoke and openly asked the president of the host France.
The French president admitted feeling the pressure. However, macron reiterated France's basic principles on the dispute topics mentioned by young people.
Malian Adam Decaux did not hesitate to interrupt the French president's speech, "stop your paternalistic speech! We don't need assistance, we need cooperation".
Senegalese blogger Sheikh fall proposed that France should "ask the African continent for forgiveness" for its colonial crimes and "formulate plans to gradually and completely close French military bases in Africa".
Kenyan Adel Onyango urged the French president to promise to end the "special relationship between France and Africa" and its secret operation. Onyango pointed out the self contradiction of "arrogant" France, saying that France itself was "trapped in the problem of colonialism", but ran to "teach Africans democracy".