Marine Le Pen, illustration - Jacques Witt / SIPA

Marine Le Pen demanded Monday that the state send "troops to restore order" to Mayotte after violence between the police and young people who refused to submit to the imposed curfew.

The president of the National Gathering also requests the dispatch of a "hospital boat" to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic on French territory in the Indian Ocean. According to the latest assessment communicated by the ARS this Sunday, Mayotte has 650 confirmed patients and 6 dead.

Denial of curfew

“Rioting of illegal immigrants, worsening of the COVID19 epidemic in # Mayotte… the State must react urgently! Send troops to restore order and bring back a hospital boat to prevent the situation from getting out of hand! "Wrote Marine Le Pen on Twitter, adding that" it won't be for want of warning! "

On the night of Saturday to Sunday, the police intervened to disperse a gathering of "murengué" (traditional Mahoran boxing) of nearly 400 people from the districts of Tsoundzou and Doujani in the south of the commune of Mamoudzou. The clashes lasted nearly six hours with young people who refused to follow the curfew that had been in place since the start of the epidemic.

Reinforcements requested by the island

A minor was placed in police custody and nine gendarmes and one police officer were injured, it was learned from a police source. Street furniture was burned and a convenience store was looted. In a press release, the deputy LR of Mayotte Mansour Kamardine denounced "the multiplication of thefts in organized gang and the return of the phenomenon of violent gangs on the public highway".

"The organization of rallies in contravention of health regulations is increasing, especially during murengues, participating in the spread of the epidemic of coronavirus, undermining the authority of the State, serving as a pretext for clashes with the forces of order and means of planning looting, "he lamented.

He called for the reinforcement "without delay of the police force to prevent the risk of a security crisis adding to the health and humanitarian crisis", stressing that "several hundred police and gendarmes" were missing in the island, since the police are "calibrated on the official administrative population (about 260,000) and not the real population (which he estimates at 400,000 with the illegal population, editor's note)".

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