2023-06-25 18:53:00
In Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior has set a new objective in the destruction of substandard housing in the archipelago, which he intends to accelerate.
By JW with AFP Gérald Darmanin in Mayotte, June 24, 2023. © CHAFION MADI / AFP Published on 06/25/2023 at 6:53 p.m.
On a visit to Mayotte, in order to take stock of his “Wuambushu” law enforcement operation, Gérald Darmanin announced this Sunday, June 25 that his ministry is working on the destruction of around 1,250 unsanitary housing on the archipelago of Indian Ocean. A goal to be achieved by “the end of the year”, he said, regretting “the delay” in this operation due to “very many legal remedies”.
Accompanied by Deputy Ministers Olivier Klein (Housing) and Jean-François Carenco (Overseas), the Minister of the Interior attended, on the second day of his trip to Mayotte, the destruction of the last unsanitary huts in the Badamiers district of Dzaoudzi, in Petite-Terre.
Acceleration in sight
“There will have been roughly 1,250 (destructions) by the end of the year,” he said. The minister had mentioned 1,000 destructions by the end of the year in his interview with Figaroposted Friday evening.
READ ALSOMayotte: Operation “Wuambushu” extended by Gérald DarmaninAt Les Badamiers, Gérald Darmanin denounced the numerous appeals against this destruction, which “prevented the prefect from doing his job of fighting against insalubrity”.
The destruction of the bangas (unsanitary huts) is one of the components of the “Wuambushu” operation launched at the end of April by the minister. “We will accelerate […]. This component, assured the Beauvau tenant, has been delayed due to the numerous appeals. »
“Regain control of the land”
“I would have liked,” he continued, “for those who came to do legal tourism in Mayotte to visit the bangas, unsanitary places where the children do not have running water, where if there was a cyclone, we would all have cried over the very many deaths that there would have been here”, and this “to prevent the construction of social housing”.
“What is important, insisted the Minister, is the destruction of unsanitary housing and regaining control of the land. »
In the afternoon, Gérald Darmanin went with Olivier Klein to the relay village managed by the Coallia association in Tsoundzou 2, in the east of the big island. “Here, 37 families” from the slums “live in decent conditions before finding permanent housing,” tweeted the Minister of the Interior.
READ ALSOOperation “Wuambushu” in Mayotte: the demolition of a slum has begun
Heavy criticism and promises
« Wuambushu […] does not solve any fundamental problem, on the contrary increases the tensions between inhabitants of the island and aggravates the great poverty of people who are already very precarious”, on the other hand estimated the leaders of seven NGOs and associations, including Doctors of the world, the Secours Catholique and the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, in a column published on Saturday by The world.
During his visit, Gérald Darmanin also promised to remedy the lack of water affecting this French archipelago in the Indian Ocean and announced a freeze on the price of bottled water from July 15.
The minister also said he was keen to “develop tourism” in the 101st French department, noting that “there is no reason why Mayotte should not be a very beautiful place of tourist destination”. He promised to return there in September.
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