Mayotte is moving towards the end of the crisis. After five hours of negotiations with the Minister of Overseas Territories, Annick Girardin, Fatihou Ibrahime, one of the spokespersons of the social movement that has been shaking the island for almost four weeks, announced on Tuesday evening that the removal of the roadblocks for the population on Wednesday.
“We have made concrete progress, the plan to fight against insecurity has been implemented,” he declared at the end of the negotiations in Dzaoudzi, Mayotte prefecture. “We have asked for 15 additional emergency measures, the minister is committed to putting more state back on the territory”, he added.
“We will gather the population tomorrow (Wednesday ed.) in the Place de la République” in the capital Mamoudzou, “they will be the only ones to decide, we will propose this and we will see with them if they will see the removal of the road blocks favorably”, at least for a month. Annick Girardin, for her part, “wants calm to return to the region as quickly as possible since we have a short month of work ahead of us.”
At the end of this period, the work carried out by the three “missionaries” who accompanied the minister on this trip will be evaluated by the government and the inter-union: Jean-Jacques Brot, former prefect of Mayotte, General Lucas Lambert, director of the gendarmerie of the overseas territories and Jean Courtial, State Councilor.
“Let’s hope the state doesn’t make fun of us”
In the entourage of the minister, who left Mayotte on Tuesday evening with the intention of going to the Council of Ministers in Paris on Wednesday at 10am, there was talk of “an agreement in principle on a new method, security measures and a better state ”.
“We hope the state doesn’t make fun of us,” said Fatihou Ibrahime. “This is a job that is done on the basis of trust, we will judge in a month,” he added, believing that “we must give ourselves time to restore trust.”
Among the fifteen additional measures called for by social movement leaders is strengthening the presence of law enforcement at sea, dismantling youths who sow disorder and fighting illegal housing.
Ahead of these negotiations, several thousand people demonstrated on Tuesday in Mamoudzou against insecurity and illegal immigration from the Comoros, 70 km away, but also to demand greater action from the state.
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