At dusk on Friday, December 27, Bousry Anliany watched with bitterness as the boat left the port of Mutsamudu, on the Comorian island of Anjouan, heading for Mayotte, where he lives. “Only French people can go to Mayotte for the moment”, the 45-year-old Comorian says angrily the next day.
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Holder of a residence permit issued by the Mayotte prefecture, Mr. Anliany has been on picket duty for three days, “from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.”in front of the dark blue scrap metal door of the Société de gestion et de transport maritime (SGTM), the maritime agency responsible for ensuring connections with the French archipelago. Around him, around thirty other Comorians living in Mayotte frown. All have been stranded in Anjouan since the passage of Cyclone Chido, which devastated the island, barely 70 kilometers away, on December 14. Bousry Anliany should have left on December 25, as indicated by his transport ticket paid for 365 euros round trip.
Passenger traffic resumed thirteen days after the cyclone, but not for everyone. “The prefecture gave us instructions to embark the French first », says an agent of the SGTM. “It’s racism. We feel humiliated. Our residence permits were issued by France. We too have the right to return”s'agace Bousry Anliany.
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