Mayotte: the barge carrying Marine Le Pen hit, several injured: News

Mayotte: the barge carrying Marine Le Pen hit, several injured: News
Mayotte: the barge carrying Marine Le Pen hit, several injured: News

A collision took place on Tuesday January 7 between two barges departing from Grande-Terre in Mayotte. On one of them was Marine Le Pen, who has been traveling on the island since last Sunday.

Minor accident for Marine Le Pen. The leader of the National Rally witnessed an accident between two barges while trying to reach Petite-Terre in Mayotte. She was preparing to reach Pamandzi airport to return to mainland after three days of visiting the island to see the damage caused by Cyclone Chido. This collision “without gravity”says Marine Le Pen’s entourage to BFMTVtook place with a barge coming in the opposite direction.

The MP escaped the worst. Without injury, she was evacuated by a border police shuttle. However, ten people on board were injured according to the local press. Eight of them were only slightly injured. Five were transported to the field hospital in Cavani, and four others are at the Mamoudzou hospital center. None of the members of the RN party team were injured.

“It could have been worse”

On the barges “happened very quickly, it was inevitable. The maneuver to turn was inevitably going to throw the bottom of the barge onto ours, it hit quite hard all the same”reacted the former president of the RN to the Mayotte la 1ère channel. “The speed was incredible”she also told local media. According to her, “the chief mechanic was injured”. He had probably “broken one or two ribs or three for that matter”.

published on January 7 at 12:20 p.m., Hibat Benhalima, 6Medias

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