justice suspends the destruction of a shantytown scheduled for this Tuesday morning in Majicavo

The judicial court of Mamoudzou, in Mayotte, suspended on Monday April 24 the operation to destroy the “Talus 2” slum in the Majicavo district, in the town of Koungou, scheduled for Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. Paris time, according to a decision to which franceinfo was able to access. Justice had been seized in summary procedure by about twenty inhabitants of this slum, represented by a group of about ten lawyers.

>>> Things are accelerating in Mayotte where the government intends to raze more than a thousand “bangas”, sheet metal huts located in Majicavo. The French must be rehoused and the foreigners expelled.

In this decision, the judge in chambers “orders the prefect of Mayotte to cease all evacuation and demolition of habitats” in Majicavo, adding that “the destruction of homes (…) is manifestly irregular”, “jeopardizing security” inhabitants. Thus, this shantytown destruction operation is suspended until further notice. The State may lodge an appeal against this decision.

France “won’t stop” the “Wuambushu” operation launched in Mayotte in the name of the fight against delinquency and slums, had assured in the afternoon, this Monday, the prefect of Mayotte Thierry Suquet. “The operations (…) to fight against delinquency and against unsanitary housing, with their consequences on illegal immigration, we will not stop them”he told the press, in a parking lot in Tzoundzou, in the suburb of Mamoudzou.

In the slums threatened with destruction, residents and representatives of the State have been preparing for several days for this first eviction operation, scheduled for Tuesday at 5 a.m. French time. (03:00 GMT). In this slum of Koungou, 85 families were subject to eviction in the “Talus 2” district, a tangle of blue and gray sheets, clinging to a hill, where more than a hundred families live in precarious conditions. .