Freewheeling. Guest on the set of Mayotte The First (from the 28th minute) Monday evening, April 24, to speak about the anti-migrant operation “Wuambushu”, Salime Mdéré, first vice-president of the Departmental Council of Mayotte, qualified the people in situation irregular, mostly young Comorians, from “terrorists” that it would take “maybe kill”.
Mayotte, the island of abandoned youth
“This operation must succeed, so as to repatriate a lot of these people to their homes”, he began by ensuring. Asked by the journalist about the political will to eradicate slums, the number 2 of the departmental council elected in 2021 under the LREM label, then slipped. ” When I see what’s going on in Tsoundzou (a slum south of Mamoudzou, editor’s note), I’m a little reluctant… Kids seen from afar. Finally, it’s not even kids, I refuse to use the terms “young people” or “kids”. These delinquents, these thugs, these terrorists, at some point, we may have to kill some. »
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Cut off by the journalist Géniale Attoumani, who told him that she could not let him say that, the chosen one hammered again: “If one is not killed, there will always be others who will not hesitate to try to kill police officers. »
« You can’t say that on public television “, dryly replied the journalist, before giving the floor to another guest.
Contacted by “the Obs”, the Department Council dissociates itself from this declaration. “As a community, we cannot endorse comments of this type”we are told.
The evacuation of a suspended slum
As part of the operation called « Wuambushu » (« reprise » in Mahorais), France plans to dislodge irregular migrants from the slums of Mayotte, France’s 101st department, and deport undocumented migrants, mostly Comorians, to Anjouan, the nearest Comorian island located 70 km.
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Destruction of slums, expulsion of migrants to the Comoros… What we know about the “Wuambushu” operation in Mayotte
The Mamoudzou court suspended the evacuation of a slum in Mayotte, scheduled for Tuesday, April 25 as part of this action against crime and unsanitary housing carried out in the French department of the Indian Ocean.
The evacuation of this shantytown, located in Koungou near Mamoudzou, initially scheduled for Tuesday from 6 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Paris time), has therefore been suspended, with the courts noting “the existence of an assault”due to the conditions of expulsion judged “irregular” by those opposing the eviction.
The two deputies of the department, Mansour Kamardine (Les Républicains) and Estelle Youssouffa of the group Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires (Liot), brought their ” support “ to the controversial operation. “Slums have become havens for gang leaders who sow terror in Mayotte”said the latter on Franceinfo on Tuesday, ensuring that “For years, justice has been particularly lenient with regard to minors who sow terror in Mayotte”.
