The Chirac video is taken out of context, from a television interview where he says the current state of France as a first world country, and a G8 country comes directly from its former past as a colonial power.
Hmm, looks like I can dig something up:
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Afro...
> In relation with that is the translation of declaration of Mr Chirac is consciously shortened to serve the objectives of Mr. Koutonin. Chirac said ""Some of the wealth we have in our coffers, I do not say all of it, come from the exploitation of Africa. Therefore, it is only normal that we give back that money. It is not only normal, it is more sensible if we want to avoid the emergence of all kinds of social difficulties in the continent" Indicating the context of this declaration was a must that Mr Koutonin did not seem to appreciate
Not a single quote in the article is actually linked back to its source, just to wikipedia pages or websites and not even to a context in the article. His quote from Leopold Sedar Senghor comes up with 9 results in a google search, all linking back to this article. Even translated into French, the quote comes up with translations of this article.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is failing to even provide sub-par evidence.
Billions, nay near-trillions of dollars do not just magically float around the globe with no one noticing or accounting for them.
Sorry, but in a year none of this has been cited or sourced, just reposts. It's bullshit, it just got dredged up because everyone's been googling about France and Charlie Hebdo.