Cyclone Chido: Mayotte is devastated but Bruno Retailleau is already thinking about expulsions

Exit climate change, devastated precarious habitats and hundreds of victims whose final toll remains to be determined. What concerns Bruno Retailleau, in Mayotte, are the migrants who remain to be expelled, after the passage of Cyclone Chido this weekend.

The people of Mahor beg for help, but Bruno Retailleau has only one obsession: “Control immigration. » “What awaits Mayotte is colossal: the island is devastated. The State has been mobilized since the beginning to help the victims and prevent other crises from adding to the misfortune. But we already have to think about the day after,” wrote the resigning Minister of the Interior on X (ex-Twitter).

Migrants, who form the largest contingent of victims, targeted

The day after, it is not to continue the excavations to find the missing, mobilize funds to rebuild the island and support the inhabitants, but to “deal, with the greatest determination, with the migration issue. Mayotte is the symbol of the drift that governments have allowed to take hold on this issue. It will be necessary to legislate so that in Mayotte, as everywhere on the national territory, France regains control of its immigration. The French are waiting for it, and it must be a national priority” he continues in his tweet.

An exit that is all the more filthy given that the migrants that Bruno Retailleau targets, often housed in shanty towns, undoubtedly form the largest contingent of victims – many of them refused to be rehoused before the cyclone, for fear of then be expelled by the authorities.

Bruno Retailleau also announced a curfew between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. to avoid looting, while Emmanuel Macron is expected on the island in the coming days.