Blockades resumed on Saturday, November 20 in the morning in Guadeloupe, after another night of looting and fires during which police and gendarmes were targeted by gunfire, despite the curfew imposed in the face of the degradation of anti-mobilization. -health pass.

Pharmacies and telephone shops were notably targeted during the night, which resulted in 29 arrests according to the Ministry of the Interior.

"The night was very rough," a police source told AFP, reporting "live ammunition on a police vehicle" in Gosier and "on mobile gendarmes" in Pointe-à-Pitre.

In total, the police deplore, according to the same source, "the use of firearms on the police in 4 different sectors".

"A force received a stone in the face" and was slightly injured, according to the same source.

Several vehicles were damaged.

Looting of businesses 

About a hundred police officers and 80 gendarmes were on the ground last night on the island.

The police officers in particular faced an attempted intrusion into the university residence in Pointe-à-Pitre, as well as "about twenty looting or attempted thefts" in shops in Pointe-à-Pitre and Gosier: jewelry store, PMU, banks, shopping center, ...

During the night in Saint-François, "the gendarmes leaving the brigade were threatened by jets of flaming projectiles", without there being any injuries to deplore.

Firefighters intervened for fires in Petit-Bourg in two telephone shops, also looted.

In the same sector, "an armory was broken into" according to a source within the gendarmerie.

In the south of Basse-Terre, according to another source, the situation has been calmer on the roads despite some roadblocks: "People, in particular entrepreneurs, are starting to organize themselves and remove roadblocks, residents have helped them. gendarmes ".

However, the main axes remained blocked Saturday morning, and new dams were installed.

Fifth day of mobilization 

The mobilization launched five days ago by a collective of union and citizen organizations against the health pass and the vaccination obligation of caregivers against Covid-19 is now coupled with violence committed by rioters.

After a particularly violent night from Thursday to Friday, schools remained closed on Friday and, due to numerous roadblocks, activity is slowing down.

At the CHU, the only vehicles authorized to enter are ambulances. 

In a press release released Friday morning, the director general of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), Valérie Denux condemned "the endangering of the lives of Guadeloupe and Guadeloupe and the attack on caregivers", describing the situation as "incomprehensible, whereas at present nearly 90% of the caregivers of the territory are in conformity with the law" obliging them to be vaccinated.

As of November 16, 46.4% "of people over 18 had received at least one injection in Guadeloupe, according to the ARS.

With AFP 

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