Liot MP from Mayotte, Estelle Youssouffa, denounces a “communication” government “of a rare obscenity”Monday December 23, on France Inter. While Cyclone Chido left at least 35 dead and around 2,500 injured, France is observing national mourning on Monday. But the elected official from Mahor protests against the ministers, starting with that of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. “As of the end of this weekend, 90% of the population will be connected to running water, two days out of three for eight hours via what we call water towers”he promised Sunday in an interview granted in the Sunday Journal. Information “false”reacts Estelle Youssouffa.
“Mr Retailleau carried out his communications operation in Mayotte. Then he left again.” The Minister of the Interior visited the site on Monday, December 16, with his Overseas counterpart, François-Noël Buffet. Estelle Youssouffa assures that she has no “no news, no message from the Ministry of the Interior” since their return to Paris. But Bruno Retailleau “continues to do interviews, to proclaim information that is false. There is no water in Mayotte”she declares, angrily.
While the archipelago “is in great humanitarian distress, which is a health desert”the Ministry of Health is “to absent subscribers”accuses the member of the first constituency of Mayotte. Estelle Youssouffa also criticizes the behavior of the new Prime Minister François Bayrou who preferred to go to a municipal council in Pau when the archipelago had just suffered this climatic catastrophe, “who has still not come to Mayotte and who now plans to announce his new government on a day of national mourning”. For the elected official from Mahor, “the little Parisian commotion continues and we don’t care about Mayotte, it’s serious”. Estelle Youssouffa says to herself “upset” et “finds this so contemptuous, so serious, so mediocre”.
She returns to the scale of this climate catastrophe. “90% of Mayotte is destroyed, 90% of homes no longer have roofs. We have no water, no food.” There are still many questions about the human toll. “We do not know the number of people who died in the slums. It is estimated that several tens of thousands of people are missing since these areas, which were extremely densely populated, are now almost empty.”
These missing “did not evaporate”continues Estelle Youssouffa. “No bodies have been brought back by the sea, there is no more vegetation for people to go into the forests. By deduction, these people are buried under tons of mud, rubbish and sheet metal. is dramatic, and that is what everyone must accept.” The MP calls “to help the living” because there are injured “all over the island” et “not just in the slums”. The chosen one “absolutely do not minimize what is happening in the slums, but I would like everyone to remember their priorities” namely, “save the survivors”.
