En traveling on the island of Mayotte since December 19, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron was questioned by a man claiming that in the slums, “bodies are buried directly […] in mass graves,” according to the exchange reported by an AFP journalist.
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For her part, MP (Liot) Estelle Youssouffa spoke of the presence of “open-air mass graves”. “There are no lifeguards. No one came to recover the buried bodies,” she said.
“Reconstructions have already been massively underway”
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A security source joined by The Point indicates that there is nothing to confirm this information, when a second interlocutor specifies that he himself went to the La Vigie district of which MP Youssouffa speaks, in Petite-Terre: “There are no open-air mass graves in this informal housing area. On site, reconstructions have already begun on a massive scale. »
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