An unprecedented operation of massive expulsion of illegal immigrants is being prepared in Mayotte, Thursday, April 20. It should be triggered in the coming days. For this, hundreds of gendarmes have been sent as reinforcements to the archipelago.
The first reconnaissance mission took place in the afternoon of Thursday, April 20 for part of the security forces as reinforcements in Mayotte. A total of 120 police and 500 gendarmes have arrived from mainland France in recent days. Interventions in slums must begin Monday at the latest for two months in the French department of the Indian Ocean. Many slums, built without permission, could be dismantled and undocumented migrants mostly deported to Anjouan or the Comoros, where they come from
“We are not dogs”
In a village, residents prepare for imminent destruction. The authorities recently listed their makeshift dwellings with numbers. Some, resigned, pack their bags. Others, on the contrary, are determined to stay. “We are not dogs, we are not animals”denounces a resident who arrived from the Comoros 25 years ago. She refused a three-month relocation offer. Law enforcement expect clashes in the coming weeks.
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