Back in October 2014, Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture, wrote to Serge Dassault, the President of Le Figaro Magazine, to establish that their published photo
Back in October 2014, Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture, wrote to Serge Dassault, the President of Le Figaro Magazine, to establish that their published photo had firstly nothing to do with the Seychelles and to state that Le Figaro had acted in a malicious manner with the aim of destroying the Seychelles tourism industry.
It was on October 11, 2014 that Le Figaro Magazine published a photo of Trash Island of the Maldives (taken from a report, “Welcome to Trash Island or Thilafushi. An island landfill island landfill made entirely of waste”) on a double-page spread (Pages 18 & 19) and labeled it as Seychelles. The publishing of this photo labeled as Seychelles caused an outcry from the visitors who enjoy a Seychelles holiday and who took ex
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