In a letter addressed to the president of the DRC on Tuesday, King Philippe presents "his deepest regrets for the wounds" inflicted during the Belgian colonial period in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

King Philippe presented Tuesday, for the first time in the history of Belgium, "his deepest regrets for the wounds" inflicted during the Belgian colonial period in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In a letter addressed to the president of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi, Tuesday, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the independence of this country, King Philippe wrote: "I would like to express my deepest regrets for these injuries of the past, the pain is revived today by the discriminations still present in our societies ".