A report from the Commission of the Senate Laws Alert on the evolution “Very worrying” of delinquency and violence in this department of Indian Ocean.
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The Senate Law Commission is about to make public the report of the mission led by its president, François-Noël Buffet (Republicans), on security in Mayotte. Approved Wednesday, October 27 In committee, it formulates sixteen recommendations to grant additional means to the law enforcement, strengthen the action of the judicial authority, provide a sustainable response to the migratory situation and support local authorities in the fight. against insecurity.
It is, however, asked whether the one visit of the delegation on the territory, from 7 to 9 September, even if hearings have been conducted since Paris, is sufficient to understand the reality of the situation. A good part of the report is, moreover, consists of known data, extracted from different sources, such as INSEE or previous parliamentary reports. The pressure of immigration from the neighboring Comoros, the demographic explosion, precarious habitat, the level of poverty, the insufficiency of public services, the sum of the difficulties faced by the territory have been documented many times.
Reorganization “Useful”
To stick to the only issue of security in Mayotte, which was the subject of the Senate mission, it is a first difficulty: acts of delinquency and violence in this department of the ocean Indian are structurally undervalued, according to the competent authorities. Nevertheless, the available indicators testify to a “very worrying” evolution. In eleven years – 2008-2019 -, the annual number of voluntary blows and injuries increased by 153.5%, that of sexual violence by 175.5% and that of violent flights of 263.8%. The per capita homicide rate is five times higher than that of the metropolis.
The specificity of the Mahorian territory has led to constituting, since the 1 January 2020, a unique territorial management bringing together all the directorates of the services of the National Police, as in Guyana and in new -Cedonia. The mission welcomes a reorganization “useful”, which put an end to “organ operating”. The department being divided into two zones – a police zone in Mamoudzou, the prefecture, while the rest of the territory is in a gendarmerie zone – the senators question the improvements that could be made to this device to promote synergies.
The mission recognizes that significant efforts to strengthen police and gendarmes have been incurred in recent years and that they seem today to reach a satisfactory level “- they have gone from 180 in 2014 to 500 in 2020. It pleads, however, for a reorganization of the Organization of Gendarmerie Forces on the territory with the creation of a monitoring and intervention platoon in the south of Grande Earth.
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