Richard Garnier, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 9:20 p.m., November 20, 2021

While the general strike continues in Guadeloupe, Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Overseas Ministers Sébastien Lecornu met to find a solution to this conflict.

Friday evening, the sub-prefecture of Pointe-à-Pitre was shaken by riots, and an armory was notably robbed.

The Guadeloupeans are not relieving the pressure. Faced with the health constraints decided by the government, including the vaccination obligation for caregivers, riots broke out all over the island, and in particular in Pointe-à-Pitre, the sub-prefecture, after five days of general strike. In the evening from Friday to Saturday, burglaries probably prepared with precision took place throughout the territory for the second consecutive night.

On Saturday, Interior Ministers Gerald Darmanin and Overseas Ministers Sébastien Lecornu met to find a solution.

In addition to the 200 police officers and gendarmes announced, about fifty agents of the GIGN and the Raid will arrive shortly on the Caribbean island to lend a hand to the police.

A curfew from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. has also been introduced.

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The same armory robbed in 2009

During the night, ATMs were torn off using backhoe loaders previously stolen on the construction site of the future CHU. Metal shop shutters were cut with a grinder and grinder. But the most talked about theft is the certainly well-planned one, 22 caliber long rifle weapons in an arms and ammunition depot in the city.

The Pointe-à-Pitre public prosecutor, Patrick Desjardins, does not specify how many of these weapons were stolen.

"I do not wish to be very precise on the details of what was stolen and not stolen. It is in the process of being established", he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "There is a certain number of armories which are systematically targeted ", remarks the public prosecutor.

History is repeating itself indeed since during the strike of 2009, the same armory had already been robbed by suspected rioters.