In this press review we return to the interview given by the new chairman of the board of Air Austral, to cases judged yesterday in Mayotte and to the sea serpent that is the case of a second prison in Mayotte.
“The Mahorais are not the cash cows of Air Austral”
And it's the new boss of the company who says it.
Two weeks after taking office, the new chairman of the board of directors has booked his first trip to Mayotte, notably on the occasion of the inauguration of the technology park. We therefore asked him about the many criticisms against his prices for traveling from our island: “ prices between Mayotte and Réunion have not increased, they have even decreased slightly compared to 2019” explain the boss of Air Austral.
And he adds that half of the ticket price is taxes and fees. Added to this is the cost of fuel. For a Mayotte-Paris flight, the company would have no other choice than to make a stopover in Kenya to obtain supplies. Given the prices of kerosene in Dzaoudzi, this would be the only way to ensure the profitability of the line. It is therefore impossible, according to him, to align prices with those of Réunion-Paris. The chairman of the board, on the other hand, announced that he was working on special rates for Mahorese students in France.
Air Austral recently set up a system for Mahorais people close to hospitalized patients. For the company, Mayotte represents almost a quarter of its passenger traffic.
Le Journal de Mayotte for its part returns to Air France's decision to no longer fly over the Red Sea until further notice. A precautionary measure after the observation over Sudan of an unidentified luminous object. Four destinations are affected by this change in trajectory: Reunion, Mauritius, Kenya and Madagascar. Flights are about an hour longer.
For their part, Air Austral and Corsair are maintaining flights over the Red Sea; the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has not given any particular instructions. Corsair just specifies to avoid passing over Sudan and Air Austral claims to be in constant contact with the civil aviation analysis center.
The strike at the department is suspended until next Tuesday…
There was confusion yesterday at the barges. The inter-union had announced that they would circulate, but we had to wait until the end of the morning and the general meetings of the agents. They will wait for the next round of negotiations with the president of the department Ben Issa Ousseni. The dialogue went rather well the day before yesterday. “ I don't have time to negotiate for three days with the Dembéni Economic Forum (…) Give me six main points which are blocking and which could be unblocked » the president would have declared to the union delegates, according to the JDM. The next negotiations will mainly concern the DTM agents, the maritime transport department, the new name of the STM, as Flash Info reminds us. Hour quota, administrative city, meal vouchers, a complete update on these negotiations can be found in the newspapers.
The Secretary General of Force Ouvrière Justice was visiting Mayotte
We received it yesterday in the 7 p.m. news. The trade unionist comes to take stock, particularly on prison overcrowding, after the mutiny at Majicavo prison and the resignation of its director. According to the unionist: “ A prison is a pressure cooker: when there are too many mattresses on the floor, no more possibility of flushing the toilet in your cell, no more window to the outside that is the television, it ends up cracking. »
Transfers of detainees were organized, but since then the situation has gotten worse. There were 647 inmates during the incident, there are now 40 more, an occupancy rate of 246%. Since September, sick leave among agents has increased. “Around ten agents are missing every day,” the local secretary of the union specifies in Flash Info. FO Justice is calling for the second prison to be urgently built, but it would need to have at least 800 places, twice what is currently planned. And in any case, it won't come out of the ground for at least four years if all goes well. In the meantime, the union is pleading to intensify transfers to France. The Secretary General undertook to report these requests to the Minister of Justice.
A man convicted yesterday of sexually assaulting his niece when she was 3 years old.
It was between 2012 and 2014, the alert was launched a few years later by the rectorate. The young girl spoke out after having an anxiety attack during an awareness workshop on sexual harassment. She then explained that she did not want to file a complaint, because her uncle did not do it again, he is kind to her and has a mental handicap.
This was one of the difficulties of the hearing yesterday as recounted by the JDM. His tutor was by his side to make sure he understood what he was being accused of. Which was quite laborious according to the newspaper. The defendant notably admitted the facts to investigators and medical experts, but it was difficult to get answers from him at the bar.
The penalty incurred is 10 years for these acts, but a balance must be found, considering their disability, but also the trauma of the victim. The prosecution sentenced him to 3 years in prison, a ban on carrying out any activity with minors, and registration in the judicial file for perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses.
Another case judged yesterday: the death of a six-year-old boy on the construction site of a house in Poroani
The child was on the third floor of the construction site when the structure collapsed. He was then accompanied by a little girl from the neighborhood, they used to play on this site, which was completely open as Flash Info tells us.
A construction site without a building permit. According to the expert’s report: “ a building professional would never make a 350 kilogram pole fixed with only four to five centimeters of steel. There was no way it would hold. » The owner lived on the site periodically, her husband and children being in Reunion. The work had also been interrupted for several months at the time of the tragedy.
It was in November 2022, the victim's mother did not wish to file a complaint, then changed her mind five months later. The owner promised him money, but did not honor her commitments. She also showed little remorse to investigators. “ The child died because it was his day » she declared to the police. Completely irresponsible behavior according to the prosecution. She was also absent at the hearing, which did not prevent her from being sentenced to one year in prison, including six months suspended, notably for involuntary manslaughter and work without a building permit. She also has the obligation to destroy the work within six months.
A first training in feminist self-defense
So this is not a muscular way of winning debates, it is particularly for victims of sexist and sexual violence. Learn to defend themselves, help them rebuild themselves, regain self-confidence. This training is offered by Profession Sport Loisir, a group of employers. She will be supervised by trainers from a Belgian association, a pioneer in the field. It will be next Monday at the MJC in Mroalé.
