Every morning, Léo Tescher slips into the skin of a personality, an event, a place or a fact at the heart of the news.
Called “Wuambushu”, the operation “secret“is no longer so: France is preparing to launch a series of police interventions in the coming days against delinquency and illegal immigration in Mayotte, by carrying out mass expulsions of foreigners in an irregular situation and destruction of slums.
>> Mayotte: precariousness, immigration, violence… Five graphs to understand the “non-standard” situation of the archipelago
These makeshift dwellings, illegal, unsanitary, made of corrugated iron, without water or electricity, are 20,000 in number on the island. Misery spreads there, violence accompanies it, criminal gangs proliferate.
However, these “bangas”, denounced by Gérald Darmanin in particular, are not only that. It is an ancestral habitat: a small one-room house. The earthen walls, the thatched coconut palm roof… Inseparable from Mayotte culture: generations of young adolescent boys, leaving the family home, had to build it as a rite of passage to adulthood.
But for twenty years, the banga has disappeared from the Mayotte landscape, replaced by sheet metal huts.
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