It’s a real tragedy. Saturday December 14, Mayotte was hit hard by the Chido cyclones. Houses, roads, schools, hospitals… everything was destroyed following its passage. The 320,000 inhabitants of the island therefore find themselves today in real distress, without water, without electricity, and even without food. We must therefore act quickly to help the Mahorais.
For this, the Secours populaire and the Red Cross associations of course immediately mobilized to collect as many donations as possible. But that’s not all, to encourage the French to participate more, Emmanuel Macron opened the right to a tax reduction equal to 75% for any payment up to 1,000 euros made between December 17, 2024 and May 17, 2025. In addition, France 2 has shaken up its program schedule in order to also participate in the solidarity movement by setting up at the last minute the emission United for Mayotte Tuesday evening, presented by Nagui and Karine Baste. Duplex with the island, reports but also testimonies were offered to viewers to highlight the current emergency situation. Several personalities also took the floor to express their support and even Prime Minister François Bayrou made the trip to the set.
François Bayrou gets lost on TV
Indeed, the politician who indicated that he wanted to go to Mayotte once his government was formed shared the latest findings. “It seems to me that 80% of the houses had their roofs blown away and, unfortunately, the slums that we saw where more than 100,000 people lived“, he reported. The question of whether these victims would be “integrated into the natural disaster plan” then naturally arose, especially since part of this “population is not recorded” as Nagui pointed out.
A clarification which pushed François Bayrou to add clumsily: “Yes it is a population which, from the point of view of papers, is illegal and from the point of view of life, they are men and women who…“But the President’s new chief of staff did not have time to finish his remarks when Nagui preferred to interrupt him, probably embarrassed by what he had just declared. “Is it the topic today to know if it is legal or not?“, he said, forcing his guest to catch up: “Everyone is Mahorais. You are, we are Mahorais and, from now on, we must act because there is a lack of electricity.”
Note that the provisional human toll currently stands at 21 dead but the French authorities expect it to rise significantly, reaching a thousand victims.
