"The Italian government has decided to offer our fellow citizens present in Niamey the possibility of leaving the city on a special flight to Italy ". This was announced this morning by the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani after the coup d'état that took place in recent days in Niger .
The available flight should already leave Italy during the day. According to the Italian embassy , there are about eighty compatriots ready to leave .
The operation to evacuate the French from the country will also begin today, as announced by the Paris Foreign Ministry, specifying that "European citizens who wish to leave the country will also be evacuated" .
«Taking into account the situation in Niamey, the violence perpetrated the day before yesterday against our embassy and the closure of the airspace which leaves our compatriots with no possibility of leaving the country by their own means, France is preparing the evacuation of its citizens and European citizens who wish to leave the country», the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement, underlining that «this evacuation begins today».
(Unioneonline/vl)