A 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed on Saturday in Mayotte, while driving in the center of the island, on an axis regularly subject to inter-village violence, AFP learned Sunday from a judicial source.
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The facts took place between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday, the public prosecutor Yann le Bris told AFP.
Born in 1995, the victim, a man from the Comoros, an archipelago neighboring this French department of the Indian Ocean, succumbed to his injuries after trying to escape his attackers.
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Shortly after this first act, a high school student and then a school transport agent were attacked, injured and taken care of by the emergency services
," the Mayotte prefecture said in a statement on Saturday.
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I urge caution on the details of the facts since we did not hear a direct witness and we did not question the perpetrators either.
It is not excluded that the other attacks are linked, but for this it is necessary that the gendarmerie services continue their investigations,
”added the prosecutor.
A large gendarmerie device was deployed to conduct the investigation and secure the two villages of Combani and Miréréni, a sector regularly plagued by inter-village violence, so as to avoid further violence or reprisals.
Sunday afternoon, no new episode had been reported, according to the gendarmerie.
Following the assault on their colleague bus controller, the school carriers have filed a right of withdrawal.
They will not pick up students from Monday June 14 until the next school year 2021-2022, August 23.
Violence between rival gangs is frequent in Mayotte, a department facing poverty and insecurity.
In April, two high school students died on leaving their school, a week apart, sparking a wave of protests.