Cyclone Chido in Mayotte: “It arrived very, very quickly, it was inevitable… We were lucky”, an accident involving a barge carrying Marine Le Pen leaves several injured

Tuesday 07th January 2025 02:56 PM

The president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, has been present in Mayotte since January 5 after the passage of Cyclone Chido.

This Tuesday, January 7, around 7:30 a.m., two barges collided departing from Grande-Terre, in Mayotte. One of them carried the president of the RN to the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen.

According to initial information, several people were thrown to the ground, causing four minor injuries, reports Le Parisien.

“We don’t know what happened, they ran into each other,” said Saidali Boina Hamissi, departmental delegate of the RN, to our colleagues at BFMTV, specifying that Marine Le Pen had managed to stay “sitting, clinging to her chair”.

The latter was then evacuated by a border police shuttle.

Near Mayotte the 1st, the main person concerned returned to this accident. “It arrived very, very quickly, it was inevitable… We were lucky,” she indicated. “It hit pretty hard. A lot of people were lucky in their misfortune.”