Mayotte has seen a lot of violence in recent days between young people from rival neighborhoods caused by the murder of one of them. Calm in this French department located in the Indian Ocean has returned in some areas, but not everywhere, and the situation remains very tense. A provisional report shows three dead and dozens injured. The point with the deputy of Mayotte Estelle Youssoufa.
For MP Estelle Youssoufa, calm is “ precarious “, but he is ” revenue in Mayotte. The members of the Raid, who were sent from the metropolis, she further said, ” are there and working, they were stoned, attacked when they went to a village to try to make arrests […]. The majority of those who sow terror in Mayotte are minors in an irregular situation, Comorians who are isolated, who have no adult supervision, and who have formed themselves into extremely violent gangs. I consider like others that the situation can change overnight. »
A ” sovereignty shock »
” It’s been yearslaunches Estelle Youssoufa, that Mayotte calls for help […]. We, what we need is a shock of sovereignty, that those who are in an irregular situation be expelled, whatever their age. When we ask for a state of emergency in Mayotte, it is not an easy measure for us parliamentarians, to ask for the suspension of the right, it is all the same an extremely serious measure because we consider that the situation is extremely severe. »
The Minister of the Interior and Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, will travel to Mayotte at the end of December 2022 to take stock of the government’s commitments, as this island in the Indian Ocean emerges from an episode of violence between rival gangs. Last August, Mr. Darmanin undertook to perpetuate a fourth squadron of mobile gendarmerie of 72 gendarmes in support of territorial staff, to reinforce actions carried out within the framework of the Shikandra plan launched in 2019, to finance video protection and equipment for municipal police for the benefit of the municipalities, deliver two additional interceptors in the first quarter of 2023, and create between 2023 and 2027 four new gendarmerie brigades, recalls the ministry.
great poverty
In Mayotte, writes AFP, insecurity feeds on great poverty: 194,000 Mahorais, or 74% of the population, live with a standard of living below 50% of the national median, according to INSEE.
►Also read : Violence in Mayotte: “We want very strong acts on the ground”