• In recent days, Guadeloupe has been on fire and has experienced violence, to protest against the health pass and the obligation of caregivers to be vaccinated against a backdrop of social crisis.

  • A blaze that reached Martinique on Monday, with the same causes and the same actions.

  • Can the fire reach all overseas?

The French overseas territories are set ablaze. In Guadeloupe, violence has been raging for several days. Demonstrations, fires, looting, roadblocks preventing patients from seeking treatment, according to its inhabitants, the island takes on a false appearance of Beirut. An incandescent situation that has just won Martinique, where blockages and demonstrations degenerated into live ammunition on law enforcement and firefighters on Monday and Tuesday.

Faced with these overflows, the government decided to send police and military reinforcements and made a commitment to deliver only non-RNA messenger vaccines to overseas caregivers. Indeed, the indefinite strike and the first mobilizations in Guadeloupe began to protest against the vaccination obligation of caregivers and the health pass. Patricia Braflan-Trobo, doctor in political science, details: “There is great distrust overseas on vaccines, which are often seen as part of the state to poison the population. "Distrust of France, memory of old health scandals such as chlordecone, union and political leader openly anti-vaccine, feeling of humiliation vis-à-vis Paris and colonial past ... There are no shortage of reasons to explain this mistrust. "Being against the vaccine,it's an easy way to show your rebellion against Paris, ”summarizes the doctor.

Anger vaccines

While 77% of French people have received at least a first dose of vaccine nationally, they are only 34% in Guadeloupe, 35.3% in Martinique, 22.7% in Guyana, 25.4% in Mayotte and 60.2% in Réunion.

These percentages confirm that all overseas territories display the same distrust of the vaccine.

And suggest that the protest and rebellion movement could quite naturally win over all overseas.

If these territories share the same potential spark, they mostly share the same barrel of powder ready to explode.

"This crisis against the vaccine reactivates structural anger: a very high unemployment rate, more than twice that of the metropolis, endemic poverty, a department without water ...", summarizes Olivier Pulvar, teacher-researcher at the University of West Indies.

A fast-track robot portrait of Guadeloupe that can be modeled on each overseas territory, underlines the researcher.

What to fear a spread of the dispute.

Incomprehension

Patricia Braflan-Trobo confirms it, the violence goes beyond the framework of the coronavirus: “Most of the young people on the roadblocks engage in delinquency of opportunity. The protest against vaccination is only a pretext to commit incivility. "And these are not the responses provided by the government for the moment that should calm things down, far from it:" We can not respond only by police in addition, especially when the population is already complaining about 'too great an authority in Paris,' notes Olivier Pulvar. As for the non-RNA vaccine, this is a response solely to the vaccine challenge, which, as we have seen, is only the tip of the iceberg.

On the other hand, it is unlikely that the current discontent will gain the metropolis, considers Patricia Braflan-Trobo.

Not only does the Hexagon not deal with the same economic and social issues, but it is also home to a population that is much less reluctant to use the vaccine.

Without spark or powder keg, mainland France should therefore be spared.

The anti-pass movement that has animated it a few Saturdays since this summer has so far generated little mobilization, and even fewer incidents.

This is, for Olivier Pulvar, the limit of the myth of a single and indivisible France: “we want to treat each territory in the same way.

However, each one has its disparities, and does not require the same stakes, nor answers ”.

While waiting for this incomprehension to disappear, anger continues to inflame overseas.

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