Sébastien Lecornu had to meet a delegation of twenty trade unionists and local elected officials at Martinique Prefecture. The day before, discussions similar to Guadeloupe shot short.
Le Monde with AFP
Fire attempt from a town hall to Guadeloupe, roadblocks in Martinique and Saint-Martin: the situation was still tense in the French West Indies, Tuesday, November 30, on the last day of the visit of the Minister of Besom -Mer, Sébastien Lecornu.
Arrived Monday night in Fort-de-France, second and final stage of a short stay to soothe tensions and out of the social crisis, the minister had to meet a delegation of twenty trade unionists and local elected officials. The prefecture.
The day before, in Guadeloupe, similar discussions have shot short. At Pointe-à-Pitre, the minister had found that no discussion was possible until the trade unions condemn the “attempts at murder against police officers and gendarmes”.
In Martinique, the Minister’s entourage had his optimism, strong of the “method agreement” signed beforehand with the intersyngeal and who opens discussions on seven themes: health, youth, expensive life , transport, chlorordonomy, fishing and culture. “The situation is not the same” in both islands, has promoted the ministerial delegation. In Martinique, “the unions condemned the violence and the president of the community [Serge Letchimy] has a plan, a vision.”
Before the meeting, about 120 people had gathered in front of the prefecture. The night was relatively quiet on the island, but dams, however, was drawn up, especially on the highway, cutting the island in two. A postal treatment center located in a district of Fort-de-France has also been vandalized, according to the post office, which deplores the deterioration of a portion of the parcels.
Sixty gendarmes and ten members of the Additional GIGN
In Martinique as in Guadeloupe, the movement, born of the refusal of the immunization obligation for caregivers and firefighters, extended to political and social demands, particularly against the expensive life, and provoked Violence. A curfew has been imposed in both islands.
In Guadeloupe, the Basse-Terre town hall, whose mayor had met protesters the day before on a dam, was the target of a fire start, quickly controlled. “Dams erected at night, especially in Rivière-des-Peres, was raised this morning by the gendarmerie forces,” said the prefecture.
A journalist from the France-Presse agency (AFP) found that access to Mare-Gaillard on Grande-Terre, between Gosier and Saint-François, was again completely blocked by an airtight dam. ‘It was clear for several days. In Baie-Mahault, the police, present in number, secured Jarry’s vast commercial area, the day after the announcement, by Mr. Lecornu, sending a squadron of 70 mobile gendarmes and 10 members of the task force of the national gendarmerie (GIGN) additional.
In Saint-Martin, another French territory of the West Indies confronted for a few weeks to a social movement, dams again disturb the traffic, Tuesday, after three weeks of accalmia. The gendarmes intervened against “a group of thirty individuals who rose from the barricades in Marigot”, according to the police, who were the subject of fireworks.
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In Paris, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, reaffirmed the position of the Government: do not “debate with people” refusing to condemn violence against the police.
“The vast majority of Guadeloupeans do not support this contention movement of breakers,” he said to the National Assembly, highlighting the government’s balance sheet, which “ended the difficulty of supply water “to Guadeloupe or” paid 1.5 billion euros “to fight against Covid on the island.
At the same time, the prefecture of Guadeloupe announced the monthly revision of the prices of fuels and gas, one of the objects of the social movement: super free lead up 2 cents per liter, diesel down 2 cents, Maximum price of a gas cylinder down 1.26 euro. On Monday, the Martinique Prefecture had announced the same changes.