"
We call them terrorists, because they put our island on fire and blood
."
The deputy of Mayotte Estelle Youssouffa did not mince words this November 22 in the National Assembly, to denounce the “
civil war
” which is raging in the 101st French department.
On November 16, the island was set ablaze after the attack on a school bus.
More than 200 hooded youths armed with machetes took to the streets to stone shops, ransack cars, cut off roads and paralyze traffic.
A 20-year-old boy was killed with a machete, a motorist stabbed, his vital prognosis engaged.
The perpetrators, rival youth gangs from Kawéni and Doujani, two districts of Mamoudzou, the department's capital.
"
Hords of young demons who move by the hundreds
", described the deputy in the Hemicycle, "
barbarians in short pants, 12 to 13 years old armed with iron bars, who kill, who loot, who attack and sow chaos
”.
Who are these gangs, and how do they end up...
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