On a visit to Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Departments announces that 275 slums have been destroyed since the beginning of the year, the objective is to destroy “a thousand by the end of the year”.
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“For the first time, we are going to regain control over the demography of Mayotte”, boasts Sunday June 25 on franceinfo Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior and Overseas, visiting the Indian Ocean archipelago since Saturday to take stock of Operation “Wuambushu” (“recovery” in Mayotte). Gérald Darmanin judge “the very satisfactory situation” in the French department, evoking a recovery “the rate of deportations to the Comoros and other African states”.
“Break the record for evictions” in 2023
The Minister of the Interior says that “last year, 25,000 people” were expelled from Mayotte. He promises that “this year it will be more and we will break the record for expulsions”. Gérald Darmanin specifies that at the same time “thanks to a coordinated action with the Comoros, there are three times less kwassa kwassa that come on the ground” Mayotte. These fishing boats are often used by smugglers to transport Comorian migrants to the French island. “We will have expelled more this year, three times fewer people will come and for the first time we will regain control of the demography of Mayotte”he welcomes.
>>> Mayotte: “We have to be much stronger on the judiciary” and that we “be smarter to fight against the spiral of irregular immigration”, considers Gérald Darmanin
The Minister for Overseas France pleads for “improve the development of the Comoros and improve visas”. He ensures that France is “OK for Comorians to come to Mayotte and mainland France with visas and papers, but let’s stop the hypocrisy of irregular immigration.”
“Not all Mahoran society is exemplary.”
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Gérald Darmanin affirms that says that a “part of Mayotte society is complicit in this irregular immigration”. The minister mentions in particular “false paternity certificates, people who are illegally hired, sleep dealers”.
The occupant of Place Beauvau ensures that the State has “put a lot of judicial police resources to arrest them”. He thus ensures that the police have recently arrested “people, in particular elected officials of the town hall of Mamoudzou who made false paternity certificates”.