Mayotte, day 2. This Friday, December 20, after a tropical night spent in the prefecture residence where, like everywhere else on the archipelago, water is lacking and electricity works sloppily, Emmanuel Macron wishes to venture into the center-west of Grande-Terre. Arriving the day before, the president wanted, he told the journalists accompanying him, ” share “ a little of the suffering of the Mahorais.
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This morning, aboard a gendarmerie helicopter, he flew over the small town of Vahibé, where rival gangs regularly clash, observed the hills blown away by the passage of Cyclone Chino on December 14, before the aircraft arises on the outskirts of Tsingoni, a small landlocked town without water and electricity for six days. ” How are you ? »says the head of state as he approaches a small crowd. “It’s not okay!” »confronts him with a half-joking woman. “I know it’s hard, the bottles are coming! »sympathizes the president. The city is in turmoil. During the night, packs of water were dropped by helicopter onto the football field below. For whom? No one saw the color of it. “No one knew, it’s the first to arrive who helps”plague Abdou Badirou, a resident.
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