2023-04-29 12:30:42
“Citizen mobilization is important, it supports the action of the elected officials who called for this operation to demand our security and our freedom”, declared Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, the mayor of the capital of the archipelago. More than a thousand people gathered this Saturday morning in Mamoudzou to renew their support for the security operation Wuambushu led by the authorities on the island of Mayotte and to demand a halt to crime and immigration. illegal. “Mamoudzou has the largest slum in France (Kawéni, editor’s note) and we are not proud of this record. A slum is first of all health and ecological insecurity, it is the indignity of the nation,” he added.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has launched a series of operations, grouped under the name of Wuanbushu (“recovery” in Mahoran), aimed at dislodging irregular migrants, mostly from neighboring Comoros, from unsanitary slums. from Mayotte. Of the estimated 350,000 inhabitants of Mayotte, half do not have French nationality.
“Marshall Plan for Mayotte”
The operation also aims to fight against the crime that is rampant in the archipelago, widely attributed to the explosive social and economic situation of its slums. Saturday’s rally, the second of the week, was organized at the call of groups of Mahoran citizens.
Wuambushu is denounced as “brutal”, “anti-poor” and violating the rights of migrants by a number of associations, but supported by elected officials and many inhabitants of the island. Many demonstrators, mostly women, wore T-shirts printed with slogans such as “Marshall plan for Mayotte”, “support for law enforcement”, “Azali (Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros, editor’s note ) take care of your people.
“We have to go to mainland France to live a normal life, to have our right to go out in safety at night. We were robbed of our youth and yet we are the future of Mayotte which has a lot of assets,” said one of them, Moulaika Antoy, 18, a BTS tourism student.
Denounce illegal migrants
In the crowd, the activist of the Collective of citizens of Mayotte from which the deputy Estelle Youssouffa (Liot), Chafion Abdou supported the denunciation of illegal migrants. “We have to stop with the mentality of ‘he’s my brother, I’m not denouncing him'”, he defended. “There is a problem of responsibility in Mayotte with citizens who must stop providing proof of address to these people and help our mayors to take the census”.
The Wuambushu operation is taking place in a certain confusion: justice has suspended the demolition of a slum and evictions are hampered by the suspension “until further notice” of the crossings of the SGTM company between Mayotte and the Comorian island of ‘Anjouan, despite the reopening of the ports of the Comoros.
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