Bayrou will go to Mayotte as soon as his “government is formed”. François Bayrou announced Tuesday evening on France 2 that he would go to Mayotte as soon as “(s)our government is formed”, after Emmanuel Macron who is expected on Thursday on the island devastated by cyclone Chido. “As soon as the President of the Republic has left (Mayotte), as soon as the government is formed, I will obviously go to mobilize all of the State’s resources,” replied the Prime Minister, questioned during a special broadcast. Mr. Bayrou had to face numerous criticisms for having chaired the Pau Municipal Council on Monday evening, after participating in a crisis meeting in Mayotte by videoconference.
A new provisional death toll of 22 deaths in Mayotte. Tuesday evening, a new provisional report established by the Ministry of the Interior showed 22 dead and 1,373 injured. Earlier in the afternoon, the Prime Minister had, in front of the deputies of the National Assembly, mentioned “around twenty deaths” as well as 200 seriously injured.
Emmanuel Macron “will be in Mayotte on Thursday”. While Emmanuel Macron had announced earlier that he wanted to go to Mayotte “in a few hours”, the Elysée confirmed in the evening that the Head of State “will be in Mayotte this Thursday”. He must go to Brussels on Wednesday afternoon for a summit between the European Union and the Balkans, according to the presidency.
655,000 euros released by the State. Via a decree published this Tuesday morning in the Official Journal, the State released initial aid of 655,000 euros to “finance the urgent needs of civil security to deal with the situation in Mayotte”. This sum will undoubtedly be insufficient to meet the aid and reconstruction needs necessary after the passage of the cyclone. The damage could amount to billions of euros.
Operation Wuambushu is being talked about again, is becoming a political weapon. Two years after its launch, the sulfurous Operation Wuambushu launched by Gérald Darmanin in Mayotte is being talked about again: its supporters believe that it could have saved lives if it had been carried out to its conclusion, while the left had done so. fiercely opposed. >> More information in this article
More than 200 Red Cross volunteers may be missing. More than 200 members of the Red Cross could have disappeared in Mayotte after Chido’s passage, the organization announced Tuesday. “Winds reaching 220 km/h, caused by the cyclone, devastated the French overseas territory of Mayotte. More than 200 Red Cross members are feared missing,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reported on X.
