In the middle of the afternoon, a school bus attacked by men wearing cuffs.
This is the scene experienced by around thirty students on board the bus.
“They took out machetes and hammers.
They broke everything, the windows, they came back.
They hit the driver with a machete… he was injured.
After they came back they started beating us with machetes,” says a high school student, present during the incident, who wishes to remain anonymous.
"Now I don't even have the head to go to school, I'm too scared," confesses the young man.
Acts of violence that would be linked to a conflict between two rival gangs.
For William Bailly, deputy director of the group in charge of Matis transport “Things are deteriorating, the incidents are becoming more and more serious.
We went from simple stoning, broken glass, to intrusion into vehicles, to aggression in vehicles.
And what we saw last Wednesday, an attack in good and due “These attacks represent a significant cost for the company.
According to Mayotte la Première, since the beginning of the year the Matis company has spent 95,000 euros just to replace windows.
“The State and the prefecture are very present with us.
The department begins to take the file in hand.
But we have to go much faster since our businesses are dying, we can no longer meet this kind of expense.
says William Bailly.
