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Earthquake in Haiti: the repatriation of Europeans has begun (update N°2)

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(B2 / updated Sunday January 17, 20 p.m.) The repatriation of Europeans has effectively begun. It is the Spanish embassy in Port au Prince (Spain holds the presidency of the EU) which coordinates the evacuation of Europeans. The French and Dutch West Indies are generally used as transit.

To sum up: in several shuttles, the French Casas have already repatriated (as of January 17) to the West Indies: 371 people, including 44 injured.

4 injured were repatriated to Hato airport (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) by an Insel Air plane.

5 Dutch and 6 adoptive children are back in Eindhoven (Netherlands), on January 17, by KDC 10 of the Royal Netherlands Forces (photo: NL Luchtmacht).

L'Belgian Defense Airbus repatriated to Brussels, on January 17, 66 people (including 40 Belgians and 6 Europeans).

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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