Faced with violence overseas, the government has raised its tone.
In a speech Monday evening, the Prime Minister denounced a situation
"of particular gravity".
"It is a small violent minority that robs stores, blocks roads, holds motorists to ransom, prevents sick people from accessing sometimes vital care and even goes so far as to shoot the forces of the order.
I strongly condemn this violence, ”
he added.
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To respond to criticism from the opposition, which accused the executive of being passive in this crisis, Jean Castex
"gave all the instructions for the republican order to be restored and I sent additional forces to the spot."
And calls
"henceforth for calm and responsibility."
It is especially the social discontent in front of the new health measures that the executive wanted to appease.
With this in mind, the head of government announced the establishment of a
"forum for dialogue"
to
"convince and support individually, humanely, each of the professionals concerned.
"
"Continue the dialogue with elected officials"
Against all expectations, the head of government has not yet sent the overseas minister Sébastien Lecornu on site.
The latter, who canceled a trip to Reunion Island and Mayotte, will have to
"continue the dialogue with elected officials and the living forces of the territory who are fully committed to the return to calm."
From this morning, Emmanuel Macron had judged the situation on the archipelago "very explosive".
According to him, the violence is linked "
to a very local context, to tensions that we know and which are historical, and also to certain interests which seek a little to use this context and anxiety
".