The lull is observed on the spot, although dams remain and that the situation remains difficult and changing in several strategic places.
Le Monde with AFP
Does the tension come down to Guadeloupe and Martinique? This is in any case what the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin sent, by highlighting, Wednesday 1 December from Paris, “progress” in the “recovery of public order “on both islands.
Thanks to the sending of “five [mobile force units] for each of the two islands” and the reinforcement “of the elite units of the RAID and GIGN, (…) after eight days, of course, the Recovery of this public order progresses, and strongly increases on both islands, “Darmanin said at the government’s questions session in the Senate. “The Republican Order has been affirmed,” said the minister, who lamented “about fifty police officers and wounded gendarmes, including a seriously”. In addition, it reported “more than 150 arrests”.
On the spot, the prefecture of Guadeloupe reported “some additional attempts to install barrages”, but these, “with the exception of a small-channel, were cleared and no longer enter the traffic” . Three people were arrested during the night, said the prefecture again, greeting the “progressive reopening of roads”. The very changing situation Around these dams , unlocked one day but can be erect again the next day, makes any delicate count.
In Martinique, the situation remained delicate at the port of Fort-de-France, where the police forces have “licensed the barrage” established at a strategic roundabout, according to the prefecture. According to a member of the Intersyndicale interviewed by the France-Presse Agency (AFP), the police intervention came to question their intention to relax the blocking of the port.
Sébastien Lecornu. says “available” for Guadeloupe
This recovery, already perceptible the day before, coincides with the end, Tuesday, the short stay of the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, to the Guadeloupe and then to the Martnic, intended to appease the tensions and to come out of the crisis The French West Indies.
After the negotiations have shown to the Guadeloupe, because of the refusal of the unions to condemn the “attempts of assassination against police and gendarmes”, Mr. Lecornu went back to Martinique by promising to open the Discussions on “adapting the modalities of the law on the immunization obligation”, already postponed from 15 November to 31 December.
The social dialogue in the hospital will “allow us to look at the feasibility of this application”, but “the immunization obligation of caregivers must apply,” he told the Senate on Wednesday, saying ” Completely available to advance for Guadeloupe “.
The Senator of Guadeloupe Victorin Lurel (Socialist Party), however, distributed “the deliberate choice of an express visit” and “a martial and authoritarian posture”. The Senator of Essonne Jocelyne Guides (Union of Democrats and Independent, UDI) is, she returned to the question of autonomy “hastily posed on the table of discussions”, which, according to her, “confirms the inability of government to find solutions “.