2023-09-13 05:30:17
A resident fills containers with drinking water near the slum in the Talus 2 district in Koungou (Mayotte), May 23, 2023. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP
In Mayotte, the violence at the start of the 2023 school year is much less than that of previous years. More than delinquency, it is the shortage of drinking water which prevents the normal functioning of establishments. The opportunity for the Minister of the Interior, Monday September 11, to give an assessment of his operation “Wuambushu”, launched at the end of April against unsanitary illegal housing, insecurity and illegal immigration. According to Gérald Darmanin, 400 housing units in the slums were destroyed, “1,327 arrests, including almost all of the gang leaders who had been identified (55 out of 59)”took place, and violence against people – such as violent thefts – fell by 10%.
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The operation, which was initially supposed to last three months in the territory of 310,000 inhabitants (official figure), is continuing, now focusing on certain periods. A squadron of mobile gendarmes returned for the start of the school year in Mahor after reinforcements returned to France at the beginning of the summer to cover the riots.
The State had set itself the objective of destroying a thousand huts – an objective specified at 1,250 huts by the end of 2023. The prefecture is continuing its so-called “decaying” operations but is encountering a glaring lack of rehousing solutions for offer residents volunteers to leave the slums. Some families therefore simply moved.
Seventy expulsions per day
Expulsions reached a rate of seventy illegal foreigners per day, mainly sent back to the neighboring Comoros, compared to seventy people three times a week before “Wuambushu”. In May and June, Moroni’s government thwarted the beginnings of the operation by refusing to welcome its illegal nationals who could be expelled from Mayotte. After two months of blockage, he accepted them again under pressure from Paris, which threatened to withdraw its development aid to the Comoros and the dual French nationality granted to several of its leaders. But the arrivals of migrants, reduced, continue.
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The administrative court, which returned to school on Tuesday, September 12, noted a 34% drop in litigation involving foreigners via interim release files from January to August compared to the same period in 2022. If the magistrates were preparing to examining fifty files per day, the dreaded embolism did not occur. Mobilized for “Wuambushu”, the judges were unable to deal with other cases and the cases judged fell by 10% in Mayotte and Reunion.
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