Special envoy to Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe).
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Sent Sunday to Guadeloupe, fifteen days after the start of a movement to challenge the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters, Sébastien Lecornu wanted to reaffirm the initial line of the executive: firmness. It was the police who were to be the first to be visited by the Minister for Overseas Territories. In Pointe-à-Pitre, where calm returns little by little after the scenes of looting last week, before going to Martinique on Tuesday, he makes this promise: "
I will never embody a weak state
."
His speech the day before, however, aroused the opposition.
By saying he was "
ready to talk
" about "
the autonomy
" of Guadeloupe, he provoked the angry reaction of Marine Le Pen who accused him of "
letting go
" of the Caribbean archipelago.
"
The Guadeloupeans and Martinicans do not want less State, on the contrary: they want the State to stand by their side and assume its responsibilities"
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