Placed a few hours in custody Thursday, the LKP collective head is accused of voluntary violence on the custodian of the public authority.
Le Monde with AFP
Elie Domota, the leader of the LKP collective, was released after being custody in view Thursday, November 30 following a manifestation against the sanitary pass and the vaccine obligation in Guadeloupe, A-T- We learned from the Pointe-à-Pitre floor.
“The custody of Mr. Elie Domota was lifted. The person concerned is summoned before the Advanced Criminal Court of Pointe-à-Pitre on 7 April 2022 of the chiefs of voluntary violence on the custodian of the public authority without ITT and refusal to submit to mandatory withdrawals “, According to a tweet of the parquet.
The head of France unsuitable, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, welcomed this liberation. “Elie Domota is released! Guadeloupe knows how to get respected! Happy Elle feast”, Has it tweeted.
The trade unionist, leader of the 2009 events and a member of the “Collective of Fighting Organizations”, had been arrested Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon.
On the pictures of the local television channel 10, Elie Domota appears on a road with other protesters entering barriers, while the police are trying to stop their progress on the roundabout of Petit Peru to the abymes.
According to the gendarmerie, tear gas have been drawn in reaction to the jets of the stones of the protesters. On the following images, demonstrators force the passage and Elie Domota appears on the ground, the gendarmes handcuff him in the back.
In a statement, the union UGTG (Guadeloupe workers’ union) has described the arrest of Mr. Domota from “provocation”.
Report of the vaccine bond
This interpellation intervenes while the tension remains long in this French overseas department, shaken by a social crisis since the beginning of November, triggered first by the opposition to the immunization obligation.
Just before Christmas, anti-passenger protesters had occupied the Regional Council of Guadeloupe. In the aftermath of this action, the French Government excluded any negotiation that would aim to “repeal a law of the Republic”, in this case that obliging the health workers and firefighters to be vaccinated to work.
By Wednesday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, however, has been favorable to an amendment filed by the member Justine Benin, and adopted in committee in the National Assembly, requesting the postponement of the date of entry into force of the Future vaccinal pass in the ultramarine territories. “We do not want to reinflaim a social conflict” in the West Indies, justified the minister.
Guadeloupe, where resistance to vaccination is strong, is confronted with a renewed epidemic. The number of new cases of COVID-19 has been almost multiplied by three in one week and continues to progress in a “worrying”, announced Wednesday the ARS and the prefecture.