Gerald Darmanin confirms the “Wuambushu” operation, against delinquency and illegal immigration

This is the end of the vagueness maintained around “Wuambushu”. A forthcoming operation against delinquency and illegal immigration in Mayotte, which Gérald Darmanin confirmed, in an interview posted on the Figaro site on Thursday, April 20.

>> Mayotte: what do we know about the “Wuambushu” operation against illegal immigration supposed to begin before the end of April?

This is the first time that the Minister of the Interior has spoken publicly on the subject since the revelations of the chained duck in February. Gérald Darmanin confirmed the shipment in recent days to the archipelago of “four squadrons of mobile gendarmes, CRS-8 police officers, specialists in the fight against urban violence, a total of 510 law enforcement officers”. But he does not comment on a start date for the engagement of these forces in the archipelago, the 101st French department located halfway between Madagascar and Africa.

Deportation to Comoros

Baptized “Wuambushu”, which can mean in Mahorais “reprise” as “itching powder”the operation plans to “redouble activity” against local delinquency, assures the minister. In total, “about forty organized criminal gangs” have been identified in Mayotte, he said.

The objective is also to expel illegal migrants, mostly from the neighboring archipelago of the Comoros, settled in particularly unhealthy neighborhoods, called “bangas”. Several associations, including the League for Human Rights (LDH), expressed concern in a joint press release that “France thus places minors in situations of intolerable vulnerability and danger”.