“: After seven days of strike in Guadeloupe, anger does not fall back

In the overseas department, the challenge of the vaccination obligation of caregivers has been mocked in expression of a deep social malaise. Sixty-seven people have been arrested and dams are still blocking several roads on the island.

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The helicopter of the gendarmerie flies above the roundabout of Perrin, in the municipality of the abymes, north of the Guadeloupean agglomeration of Pointe-à-Pitre. It is barely 7 o’clock in the morning, Sunday, November 21, and the few passage motorists go on the calcined car carcasses and blocks of concrete bouchers, on more than two kilometers, at the national road crossing the Grande-Terre from north to south.

On the ground, the tea grenades of tear gas testifies the face-to-face tense between the gendarmes and the protesters which occupy intermittently the crossroads. On the roads leading to Morne-à-Eau, Saint-Anne or Capesterre-Belle-Water, other dams have been erected since November 15, the date of the general strike launched by the collective of organizations in the fight against The immunization obligation and the sanitary pass. In Guadeloupe, the Vovid-19 vaccination campaign has come to strike the dander of many inhabitants, whose feeling of being despised and misunderstood by the authorities ended up overcoming the fear of contamination.

A decision taken “since Paris and without consultation”

“You have to stop taking us for fools,” Jocelyn Zou, Secretary of the Union Force Ouvrière at the departmental fire and rescue service. The firefighter sapor, striker for several weeks but requisitioned every night to turn off the lights on the dams, settled with twenty people under two barnums around the roundabout, in the middle of the afternoon. “We are not antivax but sanitary anti-pass: How to accept that hundreds of people are suspended from their work, without pay or indemnities, for a decision that falls within the intimate?” Hecks, denouncing a decision taken “since Paris and without consultation”.

The announcement of the interpellation of a striker striker, injured on the first day of the disengagement, has raised the tension on the island at an unprecedented level since the forty-four days of blockages provoked, beginning of 2009, by manifestations against expensive life. Twelve years later, mobilization concerns a smaller part of the inhabitants but its echo is multiplied by many incidents: in addition to fires and disturbed circulation, fire destroyed several buildings in Pointe-à-Pitre, banking agencies and Shops were burglared in the middle of the night in several municipalities.

Every morning, videos of races-prosecutions between young Guadeloupeans and the police circulate on social networks. Twenty-nine arrests took place on the night from Friday to Saturday after the announcement, by the prefecture, a curfew set until November 23, from 6 pm to 5 am, to do “facing the urban violence “. Only five days after the end of the curfew imposed as part of the fight against the CVIV-19 epidemic. Thirty-eight people were arrested the next night. “Police forces and gendarmerie, but also firefighters who intervened on the fires, were the subject of several firearms fire,” said the prefecture on Sunday in a press release – a firefighter and a Elderly lady were injured by lead shots.

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