Special envoy to Fort-de France (Martinique) and Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)
In Fort-de-France, where he left Tuesday evening, as in Pointe-à-Pitre, where he began his visit to the West Indies on Sunday, it is always to the police that he addressed himself in first place.
In the courtyard of the Martinique police station, where he reviews them, Sébastien Lecornu has a gesture for everyone.
Officials, several of whom were injured in riots that rocked the Caribbean island, recount the outbreak of violence.
The Minister of Overseas, who addresses them by raising their rank - he is himself a reserve lieutenant in the gendarmerie - can see their stories with his own eyes.
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In front of him, a police car is riddled with 9mm bullets at the door.
Another has the bumper and the windshield totally sunk: a copper coil was deliberately thrown up a street before crashing with a crash into the vehicle.
Officials, taken by surprise
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