A curfew has been introduced Friday night on the island of the West Indies, plagued by dams and looting in relation to mobilization against the sanitary pass and the vaccination against CVIV-19.
Le Monde with AFP
The blockages resumed, Saturday, November 20 in the morning in Guadeloupe, after a new night of looting and fires related to the mobilization against the sanitary pass. Despite the curfew on Friday night, police and gendarmes were targeted by shots, and twenty-nine arrests were made.
Ministers from the interior, Gérald Darmanin, and overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, announced the holding of an interministerial crisis cell at 18 hours Saturday in Paris, “to see what new measures can be taken after to disorders to the last days of the last days “.
The prefect of Guadeloupe had introduced on Friday an immediate curfew between 18 hours and 5 am, while the government announced the arrival “in the coming days” of two hundred police and gendarmes to strengthen the forces of the Order, while violence and blockages multiply.
actual ball shots, fires and looting
“The night was very agitated,” said a police source to the France-Presse agency (AFP), claiming that the police were targeted by firearms in four different sectors, citing “actual ball shots on a police vehicle” in the Gosier and “on moving gendarmes” in Pointe-to-Pitre, as well as an injury to the face by a throw of stones and the degradation of several vehicles.
A hundred police officers and eighty gendarmes were on the ground in the island. The police have faced an attempt to intrusion to university residence in Pointe-à-Pitre, as well as “about twenty looting or attempts to fly” in shops from Pointe-à-Pitre and Gosier: jewelery , PMU, Banks, Shopping Center …
During the night, in Saint-François, “outgoing gendarmes of the brigade were threatened by jets of lightning projectiles”, without there being injured to deplore. Firefighters intervened in Petit-Bourg for fires in two telephony businesses, which were looted. In the same sector, “an armory has been burglary”, according to a source within the gendarmerie.
Dams block road axes
In the south of the Basse-Earth, according to another source, the situation was quieter on the roads despite some dams: “People, especially entrepreneurs, begin to organize and remove dams, residents Helped the gendarmes. “However, the main axes remained blocked Saturday morning, and new dams settled.
The mobilization launched five days ago by a collective of trade union organizations and citizens against the health care and the immunization obligation of caregivers against CVIV-19 now doubles violence committed by rioters. After a night from Thursday to Friday particularly violent, the schools remained closed on Friday and, because of very many roadblocks, the activity turns idle.
The ARS denounces caregivers
In a statement broadcast Friday morning, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), Valérie Denux, had condemned “the endanger of the life of Guadeloupéens and Guadelounes and the attack on the caregivers”, qualifying The situation of “incomprehensible, then at present nearly 90% of the caregivers of the territory are in accordance with the law” obliging them to be vaccinated. As of November 16, 46.4% of people over the age had received at least one injection in Guadeloupe, according to the ARS.