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Crisis in Mayotte: Ciotti asks Macron to declare a state of emergency

2024-02-21T17:32:45.188Z

Highlights: LR boss Éric Ciotti asks Emmanuel Macron to declare a “state of emergency” in Mayotte. He also calls on the President of the Republic to mobilize the National Navy to “intercept and return foreigners in an irregular situation to the Comoros” “We must enshrine in our law the simple principle that no person arriving in a irregular situation in Mayottes will be able to stay there,” demands the boss of the right, who wants “exceptional means” to ensure expulsions.


The President of the Republicans requests in particular the mobilization of the National Navy to systematically intercept and return boats coming from the Comoros.


LR boss Éric Ciotti asks Emmanuel Macron to declare

a “state of emergency”

in Mayotte and to mobilize the National Navy to

“intercept and return foreigners in an irregular situation to the Comoros”

, in a letter from which AFP reported. obtained copy.

“We first ask you to declare a state of emergency in Mayotte

,” writes Éric Ciotti, after having received Tuesday with the deputy LR Mansour Kamardine the president of the Association of Mayors of Mayotte Madi Madi Souf and the mayor of Mamoudzou, Ambdilwahédou Soumaïla.

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Denouncing

“an explosive situation of endemic violence”

, the President of the Republicans believes that the state of emergency

“will allow State representatives in the department to have more effective levers to regain control of the situation and restore security in Mayotte

.

“Exceptional means”

As an

“emergency measure”

, Éric Ciotti also calls on the President of the Republic to mobilize the National Navy

“to intercept and systematically return foreigners in an irregular situation to the Comoros before they can disembark in Mayotte”

.

“We must enshrine in our law the simple principle that no person arriving in an irregular situation in Mayotte will be able to stay there

,” demands the boss of the right, who wants

“exceptional means (...) to ensure the necessary expulsions and returned to the border of illegal immigrants

.

Éric Ciotti also welcomes the announcement by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin that a draft constitutional revision would be tabled

“before the summer”

to remove land law in this French department, welcoming this

“ turnaround (...) late but salutary

.

Source: lefigaro

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