The French Department of the Indian Ocean is overwhelmed by violence and by illegal immigration from neighboring Comoros.
by
The mayor of Mamoudzou, the largest city in Mayotte, addresses “a message of solidarity” to the Lola family, the 12 -year -old college girl attacked in Paris, whose death arouses great emotion in the capital. Why ? “Because in Mamoudzou it has almost become my daily life to present condolences to families victims of violence”, sympathizes Ambdilwahedou Soumaila.
eleven of the seventeen mayors of Mayotte, accompanied by parliamentarians and departmental advisers, came to Paris on Tuesday, October 18, to demand from the government greater measures in the face of the dangerous deterioration of the security situation in their island. They must meet, Wednesday, the presidents of the two assemblies, as well as the Minister of Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, and his Minister delegate, Jean-François Carenco.
The French Department of the Indian Ocean is overwhelmed by violence and illegal immigration from neighboring Comoros, to the point, according to Mr. Soumaila, to be now “on the verge of civil war”. On September 14 and 15, a “dead island” day had been decided in public services to alert on the back -to -school conditions, school buses being regularly stalled, and many schoolchildren, threatened.
” France must protect its citizens “
Welcomed by David Lisnard, the president (Les Républicains) of the Association of Mayors of France, the Mahorais have described, on Tuesday, an insecurity which has risen a notch in recent months. “More than one in two Mahorais feels insecure,” emphasizes Maddi Madi Suf, president of the mayors of Mayotte, and elected from Pamandzi. We demand that indifference and contempt stop. France must protect its citizens . “
Violence in the department is the subject of a “structural undervaluation” in official data, underlined the Senate in A 2021 ratio . The rate of strokes and voluntary injuries is estimated to double that of France. And four times more households say they are victims of the flights, according to a INSEE victimation survey , which spoke, at the end of 2021, of” attacks on extraordinary goods “.
Gérald Darmanin, who had visited the island in August, promised to return to it in the coming months. The government has already announced four additional gendarmerie brigades (fifty men), but, in addition to it will take twelve to eighteen months to recruit them, there is no barracks to accommodate them.
m. Madi Souf asks that another promise be made more quickly, that of a second penitentiary center. He also hopes to create a court of appeal, border control means (drones, police reinforcements, military ships), and the end of “territorialized” residence permits issued by the prefecture. These “make that a population of several tens of thousands of regularized foreigners are maintained in our small territory of 374 km 2 “, he notes, while Mayotte already lacks everything : schools, roads, water.
You have 22.3% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.