Monday, December 23, MP Estelle Youssouffa deplored on France Inter a government communication of “rare obscenity”. A speech that she considers far from the reality in Mahor after Chido, not to mention the “contemptuous” choice of Prime Minister François Bayrou to present his government in broad daylight of national mourning.
For Estelle Youssouffa, Prime Minister François Bayrou made a new mistake by choosing Monday December 23, a day of national mourning in tribute to the victims of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, to present the members of his government.
This day, argued the Mahorese MP in an interview on France Inter, was “supposed to allow us all, not only to reflect, but also to obtain a greater mobilization, but the little Parisian commotion continues and in fact, we don't care about Mayotte, it's serious…“
“I'm not just upsetshe said again, moved. It's so contemptuous, so serious, so mediocre, that we no longer have the words.”. While the archipelago is “in great humanitarian distress“, and what's more”a health desert“, members of the government”make comments as if nothing had happened“, she was indignant.
“It's a rare obscenity!“, while deploring in passing that the Ministry of Health is until now “to absent subscribers“. “The general obsession of the political class in Paris is the reshuffle“, regrets Estelle Youssoufa also attacking a prime minister”who had a municipal council in Pau” et “who has still not come to Mayotte“.
Estelle Youssouffa also did not fail to attack Bruno Retailleau, who also keeps his post at the Ministry of the Interior. “Since last Monday, he has carried out his communications operation in Mayotte (…) and he left“.
A Bruno Retailleau also accused of “proclaim false information” in his interviews. “There is no water in Mayotte. There continue to be water cuts in areas where water has been restored“, insisted the MP in reference to the promise, effectively broken, of the return of running water for 90% of the population during last weekend.
She also recalled the daily life of the Mahorais. “Our population has no water, no aid, I desperately ask that we send the army to try to prevent us from falling into anarchy. We are looting houses that already have no roof, we even tried to loot my own house!”
“The scale of the disaster is known, 90% of Mayotte is destroyed“, she defended. What we don't know is the extent of the human toll, the number of people who died in the slums. The missing are estimated at several tens of thousands of people, since these extremely densely populated areas are almost empty today.“.
The Mahorese MP therefore maintains an estimate strongly criticized by the government. While the day after the disaster, the prefect François-Xavier Bieuville spoke of “several hundred dead“, or maybe even close to a “thousand“of a victim, Prime Minister François Bayrou declared on BFMTV that this number could be counted instead”in tens and not thousands“.
But Estelle Youssoufa persists and signs: “The slums normally concentrate tens of thousands of people and there are only a few thousand people in the shelters. These people have not evaporated!“According to the elected official, these victims would have been”buried under tons of mud, rubbish and sheet metal“.
