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09:48 : To try to buy the radical separatists, the government says it is ready to let go of Guadeloupe. This is not what Guadeloupeans expect! They expect the state to be protected and respected and to be offered prospects for the future.https: //t.co/xCgXXzUDXm
09:48 : After Notre-Dame-des-Landes, macronism is still giving way to the street and to rioters in the West Indies – opening of a dialogue on the autonomy of Guadeloupe – postponement of the vaccination obligation for caregivers With Macron, the Republic give in and recoil in the face of violence https://t.co/fsg24ckS7q
09:47 : This statement by the Minister of Overseas Territories in any case makes a part of the right leap. On Twitter, the candidate of the National Assembly for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, and Eric Ciotti, candidate for the nomination of the Republicans, castigates the government for its management of the social movement.
09:44 : In the wake of the mobilization, the government said “ready” to talk about the autonomy of Guadeloupe, announced last night Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas. “According to [les manifestants], Guadeloupe could better manage itself. They want less equality with France, more freedom of decision by local decision-makers. (…) there are no bad debates as long as these debates serve to solve the real problems of the daily life of Guadeloupe “, did he declare.
09:40 : Among the demonstrators met by franceinfo, many advocate “an institutional evolution” in order to endow the island with increased prerogatives and to recognize its particularities. “When the laws are voted in the Assembly, there should be a component on the specificity of overseas”, proclaims Jocelyn Zou, deputy secretary general of the Guadeloupe firefighters’ Force Ouvrière. (FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)
09:37 : “We didn’t get up one morning saying: ‘We’re going to burn everything in Guadeloupe!’ Besides the vaccine, there are old problems. The gap is widening with the metropolis. “
The anti-Covid laws have awakened the weight of history and offended part of the opinion attached to the specificity of the Caribbean territory. To explain their reluctance, many immediately draw a parallel with the scandal of chlordecone, an insecticide that has poisoned the soil of the island. A striking nurse from the Choisy clinic, in Gosier, explains to franceinfo the origin of this anger.
09:49 : It all started with the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, as well as the establishment of the health pass against Covid-19. But the claims are actually much broader. While a large-scale social movement is underway in the West Indies, I went to Guadeloupe, where the feeling of downgrading and the lack of recognition of local specificities caused anger to explode.
(FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)