Gabriel Attal calls for an “acceleration” of the dismantling of a camp for African asylum seekers set up in the Cavani district of Mamoudzou. Started on January 25 at the request of the Prime Minister, the evacuation of this camp crystallized tensions between residents and refugees in Mayotte.
Members of a citizen collective and residents are blocking the island's main roads to protest against insecurity and immigration in this Indian Ocean territory, the poorest department in France. If immigration to Mayotte comes mainly from the neighboring Comoros, the exiles settled in Cavani mainly come from Great Lakes Africa.