Located in Sainte-Rose, and consisting of about twenty barricades on 10 km, it was cleared by the gendarmerie. Only twelve communes of the island remain subject to a curfew, more late than the previous one.
Le Monde with AFP
The tension falls a little to the Guadeloupe. One of the largest roadblocks, the result of the social protest born in mid-November, was cleared by the police, said the prefecture of the region, Tuesday, December 7th.
The curfew will be extended until Friday, but it will be reduced. It remains in place from 20 hours to 5 am in twelve communes (the abymes, baillif, bassiel, caperrere-water-water, gosier, lamentin, morne-to-water, the mold, Petit-Bourg, Pointe-à-Pitre, Sainte-Anne, Sainte-Rose), and from 22 hours in Baie-Mahault and Goyave. Previously, twenty-one communes on thirty-two were affected by a curfew that began earlier at 6 pm
“That night, the police unlocked the dams located in the municipality of Sainte-Rose,” first announced the prefecture in a statement. The Boucan Dam, in Sainte-Rose, consisted of nearly twenty barricades on nearly 10 km. Almost hermetic to all vehicles and custody of several collectives, it was finally cleared by gendarmeries forces after three weeks of blocking.
five arrests
Three people were arrested “in calm and without confrontation,” we learned from the gendarmerie. “The action of the security forces has, at the same time, maintain traffic throughout the territory,” says the prefecture that also mentions two other people arrested at Abymes.
Born of the refusal of the immunization obligation against CVIV-19 for caregivers and firefighters, the social movement that affects Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint-Martin extended to political and social demands, including against The expensive life, causing violence, looting and fires. To the point that Guadeloupe and Martinique have been placed under curfew. In Martinique, the curfew was extended Wednesday for sanitary reasons, the department facing an epidemic rebound, according to the authorities.
The sale of gasoline in a transportable container remains prohibited, such as the transport of combustible, corrosive or flammable products, except for professionals justifying it.
The préfecture has also announced the extension until Friday of the health measures in force since 12 November: mandatory port of the mask throughout the territory, one seat on two and a meter of distance in the stages, the meeting rooms and show, a minimum area of four square meters for each client hosted in the stores.
The authorities also announced the extension of the free tests in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy, not excluding “an epidemic rebound in the next two weeks” because of a “net” Relaxing barrier gestures “found with social movements.