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We will continue this operation as much as necessary
", insisted, this Friday morning, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin at the microphone of Europe 1. Operation Wuambushu (resumed in Mahoran) led to the dispatch of 1,800 police and gendarmes to Mayotte to curb crime, destroy illegal dwellings and expel illegal immigrants.
According to the minister, the police arrested 15 offenders overnight in Mayotte, bringing the number of people arrested to 25 out of the 60 wanted.
While the rotations between Mayotte and the neighboring Comoros are at a standstill, Gérald Darmanin underlined that the expulsions continue with the removal of three Sri Lankans, "
Malagasy and Africans from the Great Lakes
".
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Certainly for three days, there have been no more deportations to the Comoros, but for three days there has been no more kwassa kwassa, this vehicle of illegal immigration
", he added.
As for the suspension of aid to the tune of 150 million euros (nearly 10% of Comorian GDP) supported by the National Rally, the Minister of the Interior suggests that such an action will precipitate the Comoros into Russian arms .
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Gérald Darmanin "did not
wish to comment
" on the revelations of
Europe 1
.
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In Mayotte either, the judicial authority will not be the guarantor of human rights violations
", pointed out the magistrates' union of which Catherine Vannier, who signed the order suspending the demolition of a slum, was deputy president.