Critical in terms of security and almost out of control on the epidemic front, the situation in Mayotte has reached such an alert level that the government has decided to step up to remedy it.
As of Thursday, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and his counterpart in charge of overseas territories, Sébastien Lecornu, announced the reinforcement of twenty additional police officers on the island.
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In addition, according to our information, two powerful boats, each propelled by a couple of engines of 300 to 350 horsepower, will be delivered before the end of the year.
They will complete the current fleet, maintained at three “interceptor” ships, which ply the territorial waters as part of Operation “Shikandra” to fight against the flow of illegal immigration from the Comoros, located 70 kilometers away.
Despite an agreement signed on July 22, 2019 between France and this archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which had undertaken to stop departures in return for an envelope
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