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Violence and murders: the West Indies and Guyana adrift

2022-09-30T08:18:14.586Z


INFO LE FIGARO - Homicides and attempts are exploding in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana, against a backdrop of endemic drug trafficking and the circulation of weapons of all calibers.


“You know I can sell drugs from Monday to Monday.

And if life is a bitch, it's nothing more…”

Rapper Titis, whose real name is Curtis Kaboul, will no longer sing his Creole melodies.

He is one of the 22 firearm deaths recorded since the beginning of the year in Martinique.

He received, on September 22, a bullet in the throat, during a birthday party in Sainte-Marie.

Since then, with no established connection to this case, a man from Saint Lucia was shot three times in the back, at Le Lamentin, during another evening.

The prosecutor of Fort-de-France, Clarisse Taron, former president of the magistrates' union (SM), deplores in her jurisdiction

“one use of a firearm every two days on average, whether it is armed robbery, violence with a weapon, attempted homicide or murder”

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And Martinique is not an isolated case.

While the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, must go this Friday, to Guyana, then to Martinique…

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Source: lefigaro

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