"We are sitting on a furnace": Mayotte wants more police forces in the face of violence

"We need five hundred additional police and gendarmes." Mansour Kamardine, LR deputy for Mayotte, does not budge. “We are sitting on a furnace. The tension has never been so keen, ” says Le Figaro , this indefatigable whistleblower on rampant insecurity in the archipelago.

For a year, in any case, "Mayotte has witnessed a return of the phenomenon of violent gangs and highwaymen" , according to his expression. "Several assassinations are to be deplored and many people have been mutilated, hundreds have been injured, the police and firefighters are attacked daily , " he continues.

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A new level was reached in mid-August, after three days of clashes between rival bands in the communes of Mamoudzou and Koungou. "In addition to many injuries and the destruction of dozens of cars and homes, these clashes resulted in several deaths: at least two deaths, even three," says the elected, even if he recognizes

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