In a decree published in the Official Journal, the government decrees the freezing of prices of consumer products.
A way to help the population after the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido.
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Mayotte hit by powerful cyclone Chido
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A SITUATION STILL CRITICAL
Five days after the cyclone struck, the situation is still critical in Mayotte, while the population does not have access to water or electricity. The fears are particularly health-related, with the risk that diseases will develop at high speed.
Mayotte: life under curfew, Macron expectedSource : TF1 Info
GERRARD LARCHER
On TF1, this morning, Gérard Larcher believes that “our Mahorais compatriots have sometimes had the feeling of being a little abandoned by a Republic which does not assume, for example, its sovereign functions”. The President of the Senate evokes the need for “national solidarity” but also “the prospect of reconstruction” of the archipelago. “We will have to build it quickly by giving this French Department future prospects and by trusting the Mahorais,” he explains.
PRICE FREEZE
The government publishes this Thursday in the Official Journal a decree to block the prices of consumer products in Mayotte at their levels reached on December 13. This concerns products such as mineral water, food and beverage products, batteries, but also basic, everyday hygiene products dedicated to construction, as well as animal feed.
FOOD AID
Emmanuel Macron, who is due to arrive this Thursday morning in Mayotte, will transport in his plane “four tonnes of food and health freight as well as members of the relief forces who will remain on site”, the Élysée announced on Wednesday.
EMMANUEL MACRON EXPECTED
The French president is due to arrive around 8:30 a.m. (Paris time) this morning to see the extent of the disaster and provide his support to the Mahorais. Emmanuel Macron must spend part of the day in the archipelago. The island spent a second night under curfew to ensure security and avoid looting.
“EXCEPTIONAL NATURAL DISASTER
Yesterday evening, the Minister of Overseas Territories, François-Noël Buffet, announced that the state of “exceptional natural calamity” had been activated in Mayotte. Objective: to ensure “more rapid and effective management of the crisis and facilitate the implementation of emergency measures” on the archipelago.
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According to a provisional report from the Ministry of the Interior established on Wednesday, Cyclone Chido left 31 dead and 1,373 injured in Mayotte, even if the authorities anticipate a much higher number of victims in the poorest department in France, where relief continue to arrive, four days after the natural disaster.
Emmanuel Macron, expected this Thursday, December 19 in Mayotte, will go to the bedside of patients but also caregivers of the CHM, before going to a “destroyed neighborhood”the Élysée announced on Wednesday. The Head of State will take four tonnes of food and health cargo on his plane and will take rescue workers with him.
Mayotte a “probably” suffered “the most serious natural disaster in the history of France for several centuries”estimated François Bayrou on Wednesday evening.
Cyclone Chido, the most intense that Mayotte has experienced in 90 years with winds of more than 220 km/h, devastated the Indian Ocean territory, where around a third of the population lives in precarious housing, totally destroyed.
To prevent looting, a curfew has been in place since Tuesday evening from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Some 2,000 members of the police are or will be mobilized.
