Did the French state fail to remember by sending CRS to Martinique? – Liberation

At the end of September, the State sent a Republican security company to the island in the face of large-scale mobilization over the cost of living. A first since 1959 and the bloody Christmas of repression, still in Martinican minds.

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General de Gaulle designated the Antilles as “confetti between Europe and America” ; in December 1959, he did not hesitate to send CRS to bloodily repress a social movement in Martinique, to which the death of three young locals had been attributed. From there was born the Antillo-Guyanese Front for Autonomy (Faga). This “Broken Christmas” whose history was written by Louis-Georges Placide is inscribed in West Indian memories, even if it does not appear in history textbooks. By sending a CRS company to the island at the end of September for the first time in sixty-five years, did the French state lack memory? Since September, a composite mobilization has taken, in the manner of the yellow vests, the major crossroads of Lamentin and Fort-de-France and, on Saturdays, marches in