the government sends in reinforcement about fifty agents of the GIGN and the Raid

Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas Territories, announced the holding of a meeting Monday evening around Prime Minister Jean Castex with parliamentarians and presidents of the assemblies of Guadeloupe, and the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

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To cope with the violence in Guadeloupe, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Saturday, November 20, the dispatch of around fifty members of the GIGN and the Raid to Guadeloupe. They arrive in addition to the 200 police officers and gendarmes already called in as reinforcements. The island is plagued by violence, looting and blockades against a background of contestation of the health pass.

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Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas Territories, announced that a meeting would be held Monday evening around Prime Minister Jean Castex with parliamentarians and the presidents of the assemblies of Guadeloupe, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. For his part, the president of the region Ary Chalus “calls for calm, for negotiation”. Guest of franceinfo, the elected representative regrets not having been invited to the crisis unit on Saturday. Ary Chalus points out that he “had the courage to call the Minister of Health to quickly find a solution to absolutely avoid what is happening in Guadeloupe” but that he had “a negative return to the limit of contempt“.


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