Two hundred people showed their support for Mayotte this Saturday in Marseille, mostly Mahorais and Comorians, brought together by anguish and the feeling of “abandonment” by the State of the French island. Several LFI deputies and the mayor of Marseille, Benoit Payan, were also present.
Between sadness and anger, some with tears in their eyes, two hundred people showed their support in Mayotte, Saturday in Marseille, the majority of Mahorais and Comorians united by anguish and the feeling of “abandonment” by the State of the French island, noted AFP journalists.
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Marseille is home to a large community from the Indian Ocean archipelago, depending on sources between 80,000 and 150,000 people, Comorians, dual nationals and French from Mayotte.
“Relay the voices” of the Mahorais
Noro Issan, computer scientist, Comorian, told AFP of the “48 hours of horror” where she waited for news of her sister, fortunately safe and sound.
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“But for my cousin, I have no news, I don’t know if she is alive or if she is dead,” worries the young woman, “angry because it happened in Mayotte, with all the problems that this department has been facing for so long.
Asma Mdahoma, a 29-year-old from Mahor, came to “relay the voices” of her family members there. “It’s chaos,” she says, “there is no water or electricity. I find that help is taking a long time, it’s been eight days already…”.
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Another Mahorais from Marseille, Salim Alladine, calls for “massive investments so that housing is not rebuilt in the same way”. This activist from France Insoumise regretted “the security, anti-immigration discourse of the government”, judging that “death has no color or papers”.
“It’s class contempt that has killed these last few days”
Several LFI deputies were present at the demonstration, like Sébastien Delogu, for whom “it is class contempt which has killed these last few days”. After a minute of silence for the victims of the cyclone, the group, joined by the mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan (left), set off in the middle of the afternoon towards the Old Port.
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The elected official said “understand that this department feels abandoned”: “this is not a department treated like other French departments. It is not acceptable that in Mayotte women have a seven-year life expectancy less than women in mainland France, that men have eleven less life expectancy than men in mainland France.
“The city of Marseille is not the French State but we are going to give all the means we have for the people of Mayotte,” assured Benoit Payan, recalling his desire to “provide the people of Mahor with ambulances, firefighters, medicines.
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