To add insult to injury, the French estimated that the French business community had lost several millions of dollars in the rush to leave Abidjan in 2006 after the French Army massacred 65 unarmed civilians and wounded 1,200 others.
Okwamthukuthelisa kwaba ukulimala, France ebheka khona ukuthi umphakathi ibhizinisi French ke elahlekile ayizigidi eziyizinkulungwane eziningana ngeminako ukushiya Abidjan 2006 (lapho kwakukhona impi yama-French zibulawa 65 abazihlelele bengahlomile futhi elimele Abanye abangu-1200.)