In Saint-Martin, small island that depends on Guadeloupe, clashes have opposed Thursday the gendarmerie to a group of people and a gendarme was injured.
Le Monde with AFP
A gendarme was injured on Thursday, December 2, in Saint-Martin as part of the violence and dams that have been blocking the West Indies for two weeks, and who resulted in the day the prolongation of the curfew to the Guadeloupe and the Martinique.
The Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint-Martin know a strong social movement, born from the refusal of the immunization obligation for caregivers and firefighters and who has extended to political and social demands, particularly against the expensive life, causing Violence, looting and fires. The two islands are placed under curfew.
Prolonged firebreaker in Guadeloupe
In Saint-Martin, small island that depends on Guadeloupe, clashes have opposed Thursday the gendarmerie to a group of people at the level of Sandy Ground and the Nutté Bay, where the police were trying to evacuate A car carcass on the road, and a gendarme was injured.
At the end of the morning, at the entrance of the nest bay, “we wiped three shots in our direction,” said the gendarmerie. A member of the police received a bullet, which crossed his left leg and was housed in the right. “His days are not in danger,” said the gendarmerie.
In Guadeloupe, “taking into account the continuation of public order disorders in certain municipalities, in particular, the arrest of armed individuals, the persistence of gatherings intended to block the axes of circulation, fires of Dams “, the prefect Alexandre Rochattte decided” the extension of the curfew “between 18 hours and 5 hours” until December 7, at 5 o’clock “, on 21 municipalities, including Pointe-à-Pitre, explains a statement.
“This night has been marked by several attempts to reinstall barriers on roads”, as “the fire of a stolen school bus (…) in order to cut the RN1”, according to the prefecture , stating that “ten new arrests took place during the night”.
Discommodation of dams in Martinique
A similar decision of the curfew has been taken in Martinique, but until December 4 at 5 o’clock.
In this island, the gendarmerie launched Thursday a large operation of dismantling all the blocks of roundabouts. Already in the night, gendarmes and national police had intervened on the sites of Mahault and the Lorraine Brasserie, at the lamentin, giving the places of the urban guerrillas. The traffic seemed practically restored in the day, according to a journalist of the France-Presse agency, with the exception of two blockages: one at the port, the other before the refinery. The intervention of the police, however, allowed rotations of thirty trucks, for about 80 filling stations filling, which created many queues around gas pumps.
In Guadeloupe, to try to get out of the crisis the elected Guadeloupeans met for four hours the “collective of the organizations in struggle”, but the meeting has mainly resulted in reinstateing again “the coming of an interdepartmental mission to obtain firm commitments on the points under the competence of the State or requiring its enhanced involvement “. “Contrary to what Lecornu [the Minister of Overseas] said, almost all the points” of the platform of claim “falls under the intervention of the State, at the highest level,” said The Elie Domota press, spokesperson for the LKP.
Negotiations with Sébastien Lecornu, arrived at Guadeloupe for an express visit on November 29, had shown short because of the refusal of the unions to condemn “assassination attempts against police and gendarmes”.
In Martinique, the minister promised to open the discussions on “adapting the modalities of the application of the law on the immunization obligation”, already postponed from 15 November to 31 December.