Posted on 11/20/2021 4:52:10 PM PST by Nextrush
The Minister of the Interior spoke following an interministerial crisis unit held in Beveau this Saturday evening.
Guadeloupe will benefit in all from a reinforcement of 2,200 police and gendarmes announced Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, this Saturday evening at the exit of the interministerial cell convened after several days of violence in Guadeloupe, which originates from the anti-health pass mobilization.
They "arrive in the next few hours" specified Gerald Darmanin. Among them will be present "in particular about fifty agents of the GIGN and the Raid", he added.
The intermissional cell, chaired by Gerald Darmanin, took place alongside Sebastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas Affairs.
The Minister of the Inrerior underlined the will to reaffirm "the firmness of the State" on an island plagued by riots.
A meeting Monday evening with elected Guadeloupe officials
31 arrests and 31 police custody have been carried out in recent says in connection with the riots, said Gerald Darmanin, denouncing "thoe who attack the police and gendarmes, public and private property". The Minister of the Interior also referred to "live bullets" against the police, as well as "looting" which occurred in recent days.
Sebastien Lecornu for his part announced that a meeting will take place Monday evening between the Prime Minister and the parliamentarians and presidents of the assemblies of Guadeloupe, as well as with the Minister of Health Olivier Veran and the Minister of Overseas himself even, "at the request" of elected Guadeloupe...
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It appears a COVID insurrection has developed in the last six days.
Paris sending out 2200 police reinforcements including special anti-terrorism police.
Elected officials from Guadeloupe will meet top officials in Paris Monday evening probably seeking some backdown on the vaccine mandate for health care workers-vaccine passport rules.
Will these people come here claiming sanctuary like the Haitians? Probably.
Interesting.
2,200 fewer gendarmes in Paris.
Let the car burnings commence!
It’s obvious that people can protest as much as they want, and their governments will do nothing but increase the repression in response.
I thought modern democracies were supposed to care what their citizens thought about their actions. But obviously they’re not even pretending to care.
GIGN seems a bit excessive for crowd control.
Guadeloupe will benefit in all from a reinforcement of 2,200 polizei and Totenkopf units announced Darquier de Pellepoix, Minister of the Interior, ...
It’s quite stunning how covid restrictions have created protests and civil unrest around the world......against their governing bodies. If this mushrooms over and over again nations will eventually be looking for that man of the hour to calm things down. Unless national leaders step up to the plate and calm their own countries.
Thanks for your helpful comment #1. I knew it was down there somewhere but couldn’t remember anything else about it.
Apparently a “civil society” is one where democracy is too important to be left in the hands of the voters.
This raises the question about Martinique and the other smaller French islands in the Caribbean.
Guadeloupe is where the BBC TV show Death in Paradise is filmed.
Guadeloupe is officially a Department of France, not just a territory.
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