The violence that has shaken Guadeloupe for nearly three months, against a backdrop of contestation of the vaccination obligation, was
"perfectly planned and organized"
, with in particular
the "active involvement"
of a police officer, accused Friday 21 January the public prosecutor.
A judicial inquiry was opened, entrusted to two investigating judges, and eight people, arrested on Monday, were indicted after 96 hours in police custody.
Four were remanded in custody.
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“No scene of violence”
including the most recent
“was spontaneous”
insisted prosecutor Patrick Desjardins.
"In the surveillance that was put in place"
, following the first riots in November,
"we understood that it was a question of a sharing of roles between the young people"
, in particular the gangs of Baie-Mahault, Pointe- at-Pitre and Grand-Camp (at Abymes, editor’s note).
“We are on treason”
After a night of riots, at the end of November, punctuated by shootings against the police and where the SPIP (prison service for integration and probation) was set on fire,
"the investigations intensified"
, held
"in the biggest secret
.
Because appeared, according to the prosecution,
“the complicity, even the active implication of a police officer”
in the incriminated facts.
"We are on treason,"
said the prosecutor.
“We know that he was at the origin of many operations, that against the SPIP but also that which was planned for December 30 last”
.
That day, the demonstration of the collective of organizations mobilized against the vaccination obligation was to arrive at the airport,
"with a determined operating mode between the demonstrators and the gang members, who were to occupy the runways with stolen vehicles"
and set on fire.
Clashes took place between the demonstrators and the police.
The union leader Elie Domota had been arrested, then released in the evening.
In addition, the sub-prefecture of Pointe-à-Pitre was one of the next targets, according to the investigation.
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"In the minds of those involved the purpose of these riots was clear,"
the prosecutor further explained.
If the
“ideological battle”
and the obligation to vaccinate as well as the question of youth remain in the background,
“what is certain is a clear desire for enrichment”
.