Of French nationality, Anrafa Bacar (on the right in a pink dress), grew up in the Majicavo district but fears to see his parents, in an irregular situation, expelled from Mayotte. Jeromine Doux
REPORT – The Ministry of the Interior will deploy 1,800 police and gendarmes on the island to dislodge and expel undocumented migrants.
Mamoudzou (Mayotte)
In the alleys of the Majicavo Talus 2 district, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, 135 sheet metal huts, doomed to destruction, were marked with a bomb number. In Mayotte, the Wuambushu operation – which should last two months from Monday April 24 – is actively preparing. Its objective: to destroy nearly a thousand sheet metal “bangas” sheltering around 5,000 people, to expel at least 10,000 undocumented migrants to the neighboring islands of the Comoros and to arrest violent offenders.
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It is in this informal neighborhood that Anrafa Bacar grew up. The 23-year-old French woman raises her four children there, aged 8 months to 6 years, and takes care of her parents, both of whom have a disability. But none of his family members have valid papers. “We are going to come and destroy our house and I don’t know what will become of us. If my parents and my sister are expelled and sent to the Comoros, I will not be able to stay…
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