French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence 200 years ago.
Macron also announced the creation of a joint French-Haitian historical commission to ‘’examine our shared past’’ and assess relations, but did not directly address longstanding Haitian demands for reparations.
France ″subjected the people of Haiti to a heavy financial indemnity, … This decision placed a price on the freedom of a young nation, which was thus confronted with the unjust force of history from its very inception,’’ Macron said in a statement.
if anyone was curious of how much france needs to pay back:
(from Wikipedia)
and obviously, this is only from the debt. reparations for the enslavement of Haitians will cost much, much more
iirc most countries agreed to pay huge sums of money to the slavers, not to the slaves, when slavery was abolished