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.
Small 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 France after three days of visiting the island to see the damage caused by Cyclone Chido. This collision “without gravity”said Marine Le Pen’s entourage to BFMTVtook place with an oncoming barge.
The deputy 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 Cavani field hospital, and four others are at the Mamoudzou hospital center. No member of the RN party team was injured.
“It could have been worse”
On barges “It happened very quickly, it was inevitable. The turning maneuver 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 engineer was injured”. He probably had “one or two broken ribs, or even three in fact”.
