Anger is mounting in Guadeloupe.
Clashes occurred on the night of Sunday to Monday on the island, where containment is put in place to curb the Covid-19 epidemic.
Two firefighters were injured in the face when their vehicle was grazed.
These tensions arise just before the arrival on Tuesday of the Minister of Overseas Overseas Sébastien Lecornu.
The night was punctuated by interventions by firefighters and police forces in many parts of the island, on flaming dams and garbage fires, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Pointe-à-Pitre, Patrick Desjardin. .
Several people were arrested, two of them being in police custody.
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"Some roadblocks were difficult to disperse", detailed the public prosecutor, while the firefighters testify to "unidentified projectiles thrown" which injured "two agents in the face and in the eye".
In total, the operation mobilized nearly 41 agents and several officers of the police and the national gendarmerie, specifies Francetvinfo.
From a police source, these roadblocks are linked to the restrictions in force established to deal with the violent upsurge of the Covid-19 epidemic in Guadeloupe, with partial confinement during the day and a strict curfew in force from 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. hours.
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In Pointe-à-Pitre, two people were arrested while trying to rob a jewelry store, during the night's scuffles.
Faced with the resurgence of the epidemic, the authorities have instituted a partial reconfinement of the island since last Wednesday for three weeks, a measure identical to that applied since July 30 in the neighboring territory of Martinique, where clashes have also occurred. products.
Faced with this outbreak of Covid-19, Sébastien Lecornu is going this week to the West Indies where he is expected Tuesday evening in Guadeloupe, then Thursday in Martinique.
