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David Martinon: "The French Embassy had become a refugee camp"

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David Martinon, the French ambassador to Kabul (left), waits to be evacuated from the Afghan capital at Kabul airport after the Taliban took power on August 17, 2021. © AFP

By: Arnaud Pontus

A year after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban and the withdrawal of Western troops from the country, the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.

David Martinon, the French ambassador to Kabul based in Paris, is RFI's morning guest on this occasion and talks about his experience of the fall of Kabul while he was still in the Afghan capital.

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► To read also: Afghanistan: state of affairs one year after the Taliban took power

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