Coup d’etat, theft, shooting… When insecurity is not just a feeling for expatriates

by time news

2023-07-29 08:00:00

INVESTIGATION – Expatriation involves an element of risk. Especially when the temperature starts to rise in the host country, or when it does not obey the same rules. So many crisis situations for which employers and employees must be prepared.

Economic crises sometimes have unexpected effects. Thus, the so-called “subprime” crisis in 2008 forced a number of French airline pilots to go into exile far from France. ” In 2009, I sent my CV all over the world. The only company that accepted him was Air Mali “, remembers Martin*, then too happy to land his first cockpit. A happiness that will suddenly end two years later, in Bamako. Specifically March 21, 2012.” I had returned the same morning from a flight to Mauritania, he rewinds. At the time, I lived right next to the presidential palace. Suddenly, in the early afternoon, shots rang out in the street. I had never heard of it in my life.“. The young pilot does not know it yet, but he is witnessing a military coup.

« Wrong place, wrong time “Summarizes Julien*, former head of risk management for NGOs. ” On difficult terrain or open conflict, it is the security risk…

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