Emmanuel Macron in Guyana: in the heart of the Amazon forest, the scourge of clandestine gold panning. Each year, seven tonnes of gold per year are extracted, on 400 hidden sites, by some 8,000 garimpeiros.
Operation Harpie, bringing together several hundred Legion soldiers and gendarmes, launched in 2008, dismantled almost half of the clandestine sites. A year ago, GIGN major Arnaud Blanc was shot dead in the jungle by garimuperos.