Armed individuals clashed in the Baobab shopping center in Mamoudzou on Tuesday February 27. One of the individuals attacked with a machete, and the opposing gang responded with rakes and what appears to be a nunchaku.
Three individuals were arrested and the other participants in the fight are actively being sought. Since the beginning of January, roadblocks have denounced insecurity and the migration crisis in Mayotte. The Minister of Overseas Territories has just announced a prefectural decree “prohibiting the sale of machetes to those who use them for weapons purposes”