During a visit to Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Departments announced that 275 slums had been destroyed since the beginning of the year. The goal is to destroy “by the end of the millennium.”
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The Minister of Interior and Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, in Mamoudzou (Mayotte), June 24, 2023. (CHAFION MADI / AFP)
“For the first time, we will regain control of Mayotte’s demographics,” boasted Gérald Darmanin on franceinfo on Sunday 25 June. The Interior and Overseas Minister has been visiting the Indian Ocean archipelago since Saturday to take stock of the “Wuambushu” operation (“Recovery” in Mahorais). Gérald Darmanin considers “the situation in the French department to be very satisfactory” and speaks of a renewed increase in “the rate of deportations to the Comoros and other African countries”.
“Break the eviction record” in 2023
The Home Secretary claims that “25,000 people” were expelled from Mayotte last year. He promises that “this year there will be more and we will break the record of deportations”. Gérald Darmanin specifies that, in parallel, “Thanks to the coordinated action with the Comoros, there are three times less cash on Mahora soil.” 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 get Mayotte’s demographics under control again,” he said.
>>> Mayotte: “We have to be much stronger in the judiciary” and that we “have to be smarter to fight the spiral of irregular immigration”, says Gérald Darmanin
The foreign minister calls for “an improvement in the development of the Comoros and an improvement in visas”. He assures that France “agrees that Comoros come to Mayotte and mainland France with visas and papers, but let’s put an end to the hypocrisy of irregular immigration.”
“Not all Mahoran society is exemplary.”
Gerald Darmanin
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Gérald Darmanin reiterates that “a part of Mayotte society is involved in this irregular immigration”. In particular, the minister mentions “false paternity certificates, people hired illegally, sleep dealers”.
The resident of Place Beauvau assures that the state “has used many resources of the criminal police to arrest them”. He assures that the police recently “arrested people, in particular elected officials from the Mamoudzou town hall, who issued false paternity certificates”.
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