After maintaining vaccination obligation to Guadeloupe, social conflict in stalemate

Jean CASTEX categorically excluded, Monday night, to return to the vaccine obligation for caregivers and firefighters. Trade union organizations make their first condition for a possible withdrawal of the barrages erected on the roads of the island.

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The courtroom of the Court of Pointe-to-Pitre is almost empty, Monday, November 22, but the vice-prosecutor of the Republic, Michael Ohayon, wants to contact the whole Guadeloupe.

“manifest, block, yes. But flying, looting, destroying, it is not the Guadeloupe that we want, it is not the Guadeloupe that people want,” launched the magistrate opening a Unpublished audience day in the recent history of the Caribbean Island. Thirty trial in immediate appearance are organized to judge the alleged offenders committed on the margin of the social movement against the immunization obligation of caregivers and firefighters, who has been shaking up the life of the French department for a week.

“The rule of law was in danger and the quasi-insurgency situation,” explains the prosecutor of the Republic of Pointe-à-Pitre, Patrick Desjardins, to justify the “zero tolerance” strategy applied since the first violence. The police appear 79 people and prosecutions were initiated at the slightest gap.

 A lawyer is about to plead for a of its customers accused of looting during a night of violence a few days before, at the Tribunal de Pointe-à-Pitre, on November 22, 2021. In the background, a mother is waiting for the immediate appearance of his son accused of attempting intrusion in a bank.

In the box of the accused, Amela, for example, answers an attempt to theft a bottle of liquid laundry. Frightened with the smoking of his apartment after the fire of cars in his street, she had been introduced into a super u store, already robbed, before going out at the arrival of the gendarmes.

The Government dismisses the withdrawal of the immunization obligation

“We are not on the top spectrum of delinquency”, concede the prosecutor, who ensures that the authors of the fires of buildings (six in Pointe-à-Pitre) and the multiple burglaries by break-in – between the 18 And on November 22, 80 businesses were degraded – are also pursued. Once the judgment firmness is past, “the next combat” the parquet will be the release of the main permanent dams, a good dozen, erected on the roads of the island.

Held by protesters close to trade union organizations on the day, by angry young people at night, these blockages are often rebuilt after each passage of clearing vehicles. The determination of the most mobilized guadeloupeans, minority on the island but whose claims are supported by part of the population, did not get fading on Monday, despite the meeting in Paris by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, with many elected officials local.

“The only thing that could be a step forward, for us, would be the end of the vaccine obligation,” Assène Patricia Pioche, Assistant Secretary of the General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG), Member of the Collective to L initiative of a call to the “general strike” started on November 15th.

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