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January 19 was not an ordinary Sunday in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. In Katuaq, the cultural center with the wavy facade supposed to represent an aurora borealis, the effervescence is at its height. Braving the Blizzard, hundreds of people flocked there at daybreak at 10:30 a.m. to attend a televised debate on the future of the Arctic island, placed, for three centuries, under the sovereignty of Denmark. Retransmitted simultaneously by the Danish channel TV2 and local KNR television, this Duplex Nuuk-Copenhagen is the occasion for a rare face-to-face between the colonizer and the colonized.

At Fleur de Skin, the public applauds everything when Mute Egede, the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Province, favorable to independence, affirms that “The Greenlanders intend to decide themselves for their future”. At the end of the debate, satisfaction is palpable. Participants feel like they were finally “Listened” by tutelary power. From their point of view, this change to 180 degrees is a direct consequence of the declarations of Donald Trump, and his intention of ” take “ The island in Denmark.

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