A French development law created a mechanism to return proceeds from the sale of assets definitively confiscated in France to the countries concerned, through cooperation and development programs intended to benefit populations. The measure can return public resources and constrain the use of confiscated wealth in France. It addresses illicit assets rather than colonial reparations as such, so it is included as an adjacent material restitution model with that limit made explicit.
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A French development law created a mechanism to return proceeds from the sale of assets definitively confiscated in France to the countries concerned, through cooperation and development programs intended to benefit populations.
France’s illicit-assets mechanism is itself a comprehensive colonial reparations program.
The mechanism returns confiscated asset proceeds; it is not a comprehensive colonial reparations program.