Gérald Darmanin said on Thursday February 1 that he wanted to toughen land rights in Mayotte and considered it necessary to modify the Constitution, at a time when the island has been blocked for more than a week by residents protesting against insecurity and immigration.
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Asked about the violence affecting this Indian Ocean territory, where clashes between young people and the police are almost daily, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories recalled having doubled the number of police and gendarmes. on the archipelago, but believes that
“the basic problem is that we must change the law in Mayotte”
.
“It must be said that the law of soil and blood is not the same in Mayotte as in the rest of the national territory
,” he said during an event dedicated to overseas territories, adding that he “
It will
undoubtedly be necessary for us to change the Constitution to be able to give Mayotte a subject, in a secure manner, of extraterritoriality”
.
“Year of constitutional changes”
According to him, this constitutional change
“imagined by the President of the Republic”
is to be distinguished from the bill on Mayotte announced Tuesday by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, which will tackle
“many other questions, economic, social, environmental and transport because we also need to develop Mayotte
.
Gérald Darmanin did not want to put forward a timetable, leaving Emmanuel Macron
“the right to make these announcements in the coming time”
, but recalled that
“we are in a year of constitutional changes”
.
He indicated that Emmanuel Macron could travel to Mayotte in the coming months.
Since the asylum and immigration law of 2018, land law has already been tightened in Mayotte to deal with the very high level of illegal immigration from neighboring Comoros.
It is required for children born in Mayotte that one of their parents has, on the day of birth, been regularly present on the national territory for more than three months.
Elsewhere in France, no residency period is required.
“Our desire is to ensure that both parents must be French or legal, and that it is more than a year before your birth
,” continued the Minister of the Interior.