FRENCH Title: Putsch au Niger: Macron annonce que l’ambassadeur de France est “pris en otage”
Caption: French President Macron says French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held “hostage” and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy in Niamey, Niger: News Outlet Photo via BFMTV.
They probably only had margarine croissants.
There are actually stories coming out of Niger that suggest that the French tried to smuggle croissants into the embassy but were discovered by Nigerien police.
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