It is "a miracle that a child of 9 or 10" did not "find himself under (the) bullets."
"Faced with the violence far from being appeased in Guadeloupe, the Minister of Overseas Sébastien Lecornu announced Monday evening, from Pointe-à-Pitre, the dispatch" from (this Tuesday) of a new squadron of 70 soldiers from the gendarmerie to come and strengthen the security offer ”with, at its side,“ 10 additional soldiers from the GIGN ”.
The minister calls for a "collective awareness" about these clashes which "target the police." There are "wounded police officers", he said, regretting that some opponents "(shoot) and (spray) 9mm in the streets". "There are dams on which gas cylinders have been installed, it must be said," laments Sébastien Lecornu.
For the minister, union officials play a considerable role in the crisis, wanting "to seek amnesties for those who deliberately wanted to assassinate police or gendarmes".
These people, he says, participate in a "dangerous junction between what happens at night and during the day" during the social movement.
The minister sees there "one of the big differences with what is happening in Martinique", where "the situation is in no way comparable".
"We are continuing these reinforcements because the situation is tense"
In Guadeloupe, "more than 120 arrests" have been made since the start of the crisis, the minister said. And "the judicial authority recorded in one week an activity equivalent to three or four ordinary months". "We must hold on, allow the police to regenerate" and "proceed with the unblocking". "We are continuing these reinforcements because the situation is tense," he continued.
And "I want to cringe at those cartoons telling
a social problem you respond with RAID and GIGN
." Stop and enough of these cartoons! », Demands the minister. "When you rush on a scooter, stop alongside a door of a police vehicle and try to empty your magazine in the head of a police officer or a soldier of the gendarmerie, it has nothing to do with a firefighter or a caregiver who does not agree with the vaccination obligation ”.
After these 24 hours spent in Guadeloupe marked by a dialogue of the deaf, the minister then went to Martinique.
This is the second and last stage of a short stay intended to ease tensions and try to get out of the social crisis crossed by the two islands of the French Antilles, 120 km away and marked by a high unemployment rate, especially among young people.
