2024-04-15 08:20:22
French border police agents patrol to intercept boats sailing illegally from the Comoros to Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, on February 17, 2024. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
Residents skeptical about the effectiveness of the fight against insecurity, citizen groups disappointed with the promises made after the dam movement at the beginning of the year which brought the fragile Mahoran economy to its knees, elected officials waiting for ever more ambitious measures for the territory: Mayotte is worried, a few days before the government launches a new “Wuambushu” operation against delinquency, illegal housing and irregular immigration.
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Rocking of school buses has resumed in the 101st French department, with 17 students injured since March 19, as have clashes between “intervillage” gangs. And this, despite the “60 gang leaders” arrested by the police in 2023 during Wuambushu, according to the Ministry of the Interior, or, since the end of February, “security shock operations” et “77 police custody in less than three weeks” displayed for its debut by the new prefect of Mayotte, François-Xavier Bieuville.
On April 11, the FSU management staff union was alarmed by the attack on the principal of Dembeni high school by three men armed with a pruning saw. “No improvement in the living conditions of our colleagues and the population of Mayotte has been recorded to date”lamented the union.
“Comm operation”
In this context, the distant prospect of an end to the water crisis is fueling weariness, with water towers in force until 2025 to preserve the resource, as confirmed by the Minister Delegate in charge of water resources. -Wed, Marie Guévenoux, at the beginning of April, during her visit. The State distributed 14 million liters of water and spent 100 million euros in the crisis in 2023, but heavy investments remain necessary in the medium term.
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As for the dismantling of the African migrant camp at the Cavani stadium, it did not dissipate the climate of exasperation mixed with racism which pushes some of the roadblockers to want to resume the blockade of the island. “For the moment we are not in this logic, but the population remains mobilized”, says Yasmina Aouny, spokesperson for the main movement, Forces vives.
“We are really worried, she continues. Around us, not a single person is spared from the violence. And we have the impression that anarchy is gaining ground. We expect long-term operations, more than spectacular ones. Wuambushu 1 was a communications operation. »
The senator of the majority (Rally of Democrats, Progressives and Independents) Saïd Omar Oili deplores that no shared assessment has been drawn from Wuambushu, in the sense of “what worked and what didn’t”. “All public policy must be evaluated”he emphasizes.
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