The Last Frenchman | VPRO Documentary

In this episode of 'Frontline' Bram Vermeulen examines the reversed roles in the relationship between Europe and Africa.
The former colonies no longer put up with European interference and are now violently demanding an equal relationship. Bram is in Niger - where recently in a wave of anti-Western coups in Africa - a coup has taken place.
On his trip to Niger, in the heart of the Sahara Desert, Bram Vermeulen sees how the billions of euro's Europe has poured into African countries in recent years to combat terrorism and migration have gone up in smoke. After the coup in Niger, the coup plotters cancelled any cooperation with Europe and people smugglers are allowed to go about their business again.
Former colonizer France, in particular, is to suffer. The French ambassador has been sent back to Paris, along with the 1500 French soldiers in Niger. Almost all French citizens also left. Bram speaks to the last remaining Frenchman who is still willing to show what he has to leave behind after 42 years.
Bram is also invited to one of the coup leaders, but this governor of the capital Niamey soon has enough of his questions. Meanwhile, in Agadez, the base of operations for people smugglers, people are celebrating. The scrapping of the law banning the transportation of migrants gives them a free hand again.
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[@amirrjunior8387]

A very condescending attitude still persists within these street side journalists. Not even once did you cover the plight of the poor children you came across who have been robbed all their lives, nor did cover the real reason behind the coup, But reporting in the interests of French sitting on their sofas back home. And you wonder why you didn't get a handshake from the General. You should have been thrown out of the country.

[@MugurColtea]

If you follow all of the documentaries by Bram Vermeulen, you will notice that the the purpose of those documentaries is to trigger an alarm signal for Europe, to show that it is loosing influence all over the world against China and Russia. European elites have not correctly adapted to the needs of the rest of the world; they've went into former colonies and held 3000 square metre gardens in the city centres, for example, with no regard to proper diolomatic ties with the said countries. While these countries may not be powerful military powers and economies, they are nevertheless relevant for their strategic location, ground and Human Resources, since we have a declining, ageing population in the western world. If anything, those documentaries go on to show European failure. It does not need to make it more painful, by showing us, the young Europeans, how terrible our elderly elites were in those countries.