While the government is pursuing a standoff with an uncertain outcome with trade unionists and elected officials so far very devious, the police forces deployed in the West Indies are trying to restore calm with the patience of a deminer.
Almost two weeks after the start of a crisis punctuated by riots and looting, barricades and attacks against men in uniform, paralyzing an entire territory, the units regained control of the situation thanks to a rise in power , of which
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The approximately 1,000 soldiers, including 250 from two mobile squadrons, assigned to the gendarmerie of Guadeloupe and the northern islands, benefited from the implementation of an unprecedented rapid reaction force.
Under the code name of Diag, for "augmented gendarmerie intervention device", it makes it possible to project, in less than two hours and at any point in France, a combination of personnel specialized in the maintenance of order and the intervention, as well as
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