Special envoy to Mayotte
On Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, they call themselves the “Watoro” (forest people), the “Terrorists” or the “Scum” and have fun challenging each other between rival gangs.
In “real life”, it is these thousands of young delinquents, left to their own devices in bangas – makeshift corrugated iron huts – who sow terror in Mayotte.
On the roads, they stone vehicles, ransom motorists, rob villagers, loot stores, and their “turf wars” are settled in blood.
“We are at a point where everyone is suffocating,”
warns a resident who, like a large part of the population,
“self-confines”
as soon as night falls.
While the government has just announced a series of strong commitments against illegal immigration, the citizen collectives of the Forces vives, whose protest blockades have paralyzed the archipelago for three weeks, are slow to agree on the end of their movement:
“The most difficult problem, insecurity, has not been resolved!
»
exclaims Safina Soula, one of their managers.
In the meantime, Mayotte is still at a standstill.
Even if a
“partial”
opening of the dams was envisaged last night for the coming days.
In a letter sent this Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the new Minister Delegate for Overseas Territories, Marie Guévenoux, promise the presentation of the emergency bill for Mayotte in the Council of Ministers on May 22.
The text must include the end of the territorialized residence permit, the main demand of the Forces vives.
This device, specific to the 101st French department, prevents foreigners (mainly Comorians and Malagasy) from joining the mainland.
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