The information was confirmed by a police source, the president of the Rally for the Protection of Afro-Caribbean Peoples and Resources (RPPRAC), Rodrigue Petitot, nicknamed “The R” was arrested by the national police on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Dillon, in Fort-de-France.
The police intervened around 4am for a report of an attempted bus theft. According to the same police sources, a group of about ten people were next to the vehicle when the police teams arrived. All were dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and gloves, and tried to oppose the police.
The police were reportedly pelted with violent stones, and the police responded with flash-ball shots. None of the hooded individuals were hit by these shots.
The police managed to arrest only one individual, wearing a hood. And were surprised to discover that it was Rodrigue Petitot. The activist was arrested and taken into custody.
The investigation is now continuing under the authority of the Fort-de-France public prosecutor’s office to determine his involvement in these events.
A “colonial response” for the protesters
Among the demonstrators mobilized since this morning at the Grand Port Maritime of Fort-de-France, this version is highly contested.
This is particularly what is indicated Aude Goussard, one of the spokespersons and secretary of the RPPRAC.
The president of the RPPRAC was arrested in the parking lot of the Dillon stadium. He was not caught red-handed. He is a disabled man, he was pinned to the ground. Once again, it is the colonial response
For her, as for the activists present, it is an arrest:
arbitrary. But the authorities must know that when you cut off a head, 10,000 more grow
Since this morning, the demonstrators, who had met at Carrefour Dillon, have moved to the port of Fort-de-France, where they are blocking the roundabout and say they are “determined” to make “the suffering of the people” heard.
We cannot be satisfied with this situation. All we want is an alignment of prices with France. There is an injustice on prices, but also an environmental, medical, food and economic injustice. We must stop making us believe that we are second-class French!
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