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Mayotte: Bruno Retailleau crushed for holding his speech during the minute of silence
MAYOTTE – Political error or simple planning delay? On this day of national mourning in solidarity with Mayotte, all of France observed a minute of silence at 11 a.m. this Monday, December 23. All ? No. At this precise hour, the words of the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who was giving a speech to the press, resonated on Place Beauvau.
“I never thought I would see a French department in such a state of devastation, desolation (…) permanent housing has suffered greatly, precarious housing, there is nothing left”he declared, specifying the count of the forces sent there. A speech which stood out while silence reigned at the Élysée, Matignon and other gathering places filmed by television channels.
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Bruno Retailleau, however, paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, a few minutes later at the end of his speech. But it was well after 11 o'clock.
“So serious, so mediocre”
These few minutes of delay did not go unnoticed. On social networks, Internet users denounced “ indecency » and a desire to make a “ communication call » on the backs of the victims.
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A fact that he has been accused of for several days, particularly since his visit to the devastated archipelago. “ Mr. Retailleau carried out his communications operation in Mayotte, left the parliamentarians behind, he brought journalists and then he left. I have not received any news, a message from the Ministry of the Interior since he left the island », denounced, angrily on France Inter, the LIOT MP for Mayotte Estelle Youssouffa this Monday morning.
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“The little Parisian commotion continues” on this day of mourning, while the population of Mayotte “has no water, has not seen help”. “It’s so contemptuous, so serious, so mediocre, that we no longer have the words”she continued.
Already when he came to Mayotte, the minister had left a bitter impression. Arriving in the archipelago on the evening of Sunday December 15 to observe the colossal damage and try to measure the human toll after the passage of Cyclone Chido on the archipelago, the tenant of Place Beauvau left the next day targeting immigration.
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