Antoine Bienvault / Photo credits: Chafion MADI / AFP 8:18 a.m., February 12, 2024, modified at 8:18 a.m., February 12, 2024
Gérald Darmanin, traveling to Mayotte, announced on Sunday a constitutional revision to remove land rights on the Indian Ocean island, which is facing a serious migration crisis. In Mayotte, residents at the end of their tether promised to continue the blockades. An anger deemed legitimate, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior.
Anger is still brewing in Mayotte. Angry residents promised to continue the blockades at least until Wednesday. Immigration, feeling of insecurity, the Mahorais can't take it anymore and continue to make it known. And according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, their anger seems very legitimate. The growing feeling of insecurity in Mayotte is largely confirmed by the figures. According to the Ministry of the Interior, armed robberies jumped by 121% between 2019 and 2023. Over the same period, violent robberies also doubled.
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A delinquency that many residents attribute to the mass immigration which is shaking the island. According to Gérald Darmanin, 90% of children born in Mayotte do not have a Mahorais mother or father. A situation which worries local populations, because according to Beauvau, only 18% of children growing up in Mayotte have both parents of French nationality.
To try to stem this wave of migration, the government has announced the upcoming establishment of a maritime iron curtain to prevent illegal boats from docking. But according to the French Navy, the French fleet in Mayotte currently only has two coastal boats and a semi-rigid interceptor. Only three boats, resources which today seem insufficient, to control the entire Mahoran coast.