Guadeloupe: seven people arrested after new incidents between protesters and law enforcement

A man who had been arrested during the weekend in possession of a weapon on fire in an armory during looting, was sentenced to six months in prison for “recel”.

Le Monde with AFP

If the calm is gradually returning to Guadeloupe, prey since mid-November to an enamelled social fronde of violence, seven new arrests have taken place, have indicated concordant sources, Monday, December 6th

“Two people were arrested”, Monday morning, as a result of the clashes when “three gendarmes were injured slightly by stone throwing,” the gendarmerie said. The gendarmes were trying to intervene on a reinstalled dam in the Riviere des Fathers, Lower Lower, and wiped “projectile jets” during “several hours”, according to this source. The police had to make use of tearful bombs before releasing access in the middle of the morning. The two people were arrested for “hindering, and violence on custodians of the public authority”, according to the same source.

Traffic almost returned to normal

Another attempt to recover about dams has been prevented on the kusaverie roundabout, communicated the prefecture in its night’s assessment, adding that five people had been arrested, including “an individual carrier of a pistol Automatic “.

A man who had been arrested during the weekend in possession of a firearm stolen in an armory of Baie-Mahault during the looting, at the beginning of the social crisis, was sentenced, Monday, to fifteen months In prison, six months for “recel”, said, for its part, at the France-Press agency (AFP) Patrick Desjardins, Prosecutor of the Republic of Pointe-à-Pitre. Since the beginning of the crisis, more than sixty convictions for “violent and illegal actions” have been pronounced.

The traffic was almost almost returned to the normal, Monday, except on certain roads, where dams are maintained, like that of the boucan, in Sainte-Rose, or that of Perrin, Abymes.

/Media reports.