France to send special troops to Guadeloupe after a robbery, burning | Coronavirus Plague News
The delivery comes after the time to get home failed to end the violent protests against COVID-19.
France is sending several special police forces to restore order on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe following riots and robberies amid protests against COVID-19.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France would send about 50 members of the GIGN and RAID militia and police to a foreign area, where shops were looted, police shootings, and 31 people were arrested overnight. whole.
The additions have increased the number of police and gendarms found in Guadeloupe to 2,250, Darmanin said.
“The first message is that the government will stand up,” he said.
The delivery came in the wake of a series of days of protests, in which protesters rallied in several towns against the city’s demand for a nightclub to end the violence.
“The night was a nightmare,” a police source told AFP.
Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
In the eastern town of Saint-Francois, “an army station coming out of the station was threatened by gunfire.”
“Guns were used in police raids in four different areas” throughout the island, the source added, and one soldier was slightly injured when he was hit by a stone in the face.
A second source within the gendarmerie states that the armory was stolen.
In the Le Petit-Bourg area west, firefighters put out fires in two mobile phone shops, which were also robbed.
Guadeloupe leader Alexandre Rochatte, who represents the French government on the islands, on Friday imposed a curfew from 6pm to 5am on the fifth day of civil unrest when barricades burned down the streets and firefighters and doctors protested.
In a Twitter post about damage to property, Rochatte later claimed that power outages near dams, especially in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, were causing a lot of customers’ losses and warned that they represented a risk of electrocution.
Labor unions launched a permanent protest on Monday against the compulsory vaccination of health workers against COVID-19 and medical requirements.
Although most people in mainland France have now received two doses of vaccines, prices in its outlying areas have dropped.
As of November 16, about 46 percent of Guadeloupe officials had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine.
