Emmanuel Macron spends a second day in Mayotte this Friday, December 20. He must go to shanty towns destroyed by Cyclone Chido almost a week ago. Taken to task on several occasions, the head of state has had tense exchanges with the Mahorais in recent hours.
08:52 – It is difficult to have a “fairer” assessment in Mayotte warns the resigning Minister of Health
Nearly a week after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, it remains difficult to have a “more accurate” assessment of the number of victims, indicates Geneviève Darrieussecq, resigning Minister of Health and Access, on Franceinfo. The assessment will be able to be clarified with the start of investigations on the ground and “the prefect has implemented a particular mission in this sense” warned the minister.
Geneviève Darrieussecq recalled that a health bridge was set up between Mayotte and Reunion Island and made it possible to evacuate “109 patients” to ensure the continuity of their care. While the healthcare system in Mayotte is seriously degraded, in fact 170 caregivers are due to arrive in Mayotte and already around a hundred caregivers are there, declared the resigning minister. Note that the emergency field hospital must begin to receive patients.
08:45 – 14 million euros raised for Mayotte for the Fondation de France
The Fondation de France announces that it has raised 14 million euros since the launch of its appeal for donations for Mayotte. The organization’s director of philanthropic action, Alexandre Giraud, speaks of an “exceptional surge of generosity”: “This is the biggest start of emergency fundraising in such a short time at the Fondation de France.”
08:27 – Villages in Mayotte gradually replenished with water
Several villages in Mayotte such as Pamandzi, Mtsangaboua or Longonio have been able to be replenished with water or are preparing to be in the coming hours. But the situation remains difficult in Mamoudzou, the prefecture, or in Dembeni explains Mayotte La ère who recalls that the water network is very damaged and that the transfer of water is prevented due to lack of electricity in the pumps. Currently the production capacity reaches half of the total performance, i.e. 20,000 m3/d. While four out of five production units are functional, many catchments and boreholes are out of service or inaccessible.
08:09 – Bayrou aims to rebuild Mayotte in “two years”
He is not in Mayotte but has promised to go there once his government is formed. The Prime Minister called for a rapid reconstruction of the archipelago last night on the France 2 set: “I think we must set a much shorter deadline than the five years” planned for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame a he declared, taking up the comparison made by Emmanuel Macron. “I say maybe two years. I hope we will get there. It’s a superhuman, immense task,” added François Bayrou.
08:05 – Macron again in Mayotte to visit the ravaged slums
Emmanuel Macron decided to extend his stay in Mayotte, to spend the night on the archipelago and to visit a shanty town ravaged by Cyclone Chido almost a week ago. “I decided to sleep here because I considered that, given what the population was going through”, leaving again the same day could have “established the idea that we come, we look, we leave”, explained he told the press yesterday. A decision that he presents as “a mark of respect, of consideration”, while several victims expressed their anger and their feeling of abandonment.
08:00 – “I have nothing to do with it”: another tense exchange between Macron and the Mahorais
Another exchange and other tensions last night between Emmanuel Macron and the Head of State. Emmanuel Macron was sharply attacked and booed in the evening in Pamandzi, on the island of Petite-Terre opposite Mamoudzouau. Booed by the victims who chanted “Macron resign!”, the President of the Republic told the residents: “I have nothing to do with the cyclone, you can blame me, it’s not me”.
08:00 – “If it wasn’t France, you would be 10,000 times more in trouble,” says Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron’s first day in Mayotte was marked by several tensions between the head of state and the Mahorais victims. The latter sometimes booed the President of the Republic, called for his resignation and pointed out the insufficiency of aid. Messages heard, but not always appreciated by Emmanuel Macron who lost his temper in front of the crowd as shown in images captured by Brut. While a resident criticized the head of state for “saying that everything is fine when everything is bad”, he denied it and replied: “Why are you making me say that? Everyone is fighting, you have experienced something terrible thing. Don’t pit people against each other! If you pit people against each other, we’re screwed! Because you’re happy to be in France! !” And Emmanuel Macron added that “there is no place in the Indian Ocean where we help people so much”.
19/12/24 – 11:18 p.m. – In images, Emmanuel Macron heckled by the Mahorais
Thursday evening, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron faced a crowd of Mahorais who demanded his resignation, as we mentioned earlier. Here is the scene in pictures:
19/12/24 – 22:09 – “It’s underdevelopment that killed” in Mayotte, believes Jean-Luc Mélenchon
During a conference entitled “The political moment”, the founder of La France insoumise declared that “it was deprivation, underdevelopment, class contempt which killed” in Mayotte. “We are not just talking about a climatic event. We are talking about the way in which compatriots, human beings, men and women who are our brothers and sisters in humanity are treated. “, pointed out Jean-Luc Mélenchon, regretting that “thousands and thousands of people were left in barracks and shanty towns”. Precarious habitats that the rebellious leader denied having, with his group, refused to destroy because “destroying a shanty town is within everyone’s reach, but we still have to tell people where they are going go”.
19/12/24 – 9:04 p.m. – “This is the biggest disaster our country has experienced in a very long time”, says François Bayrou
Guest of The Event on France 2 Thursday evening, François Bayrou returned to the situation in Mayotte. Deploring “the greatest catastrophe that our country has known for a very long time”, he recalled the fear of the authorities of finding numerous victims under the rubble. As for the reconstruction of the “entirely devastated” island, he assured that “the State will remain present” in Mayotte, before expressing his hope of being able to “rebuild as quickly as possible, perhaps in two years “the island.
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