DIRECT. “Autonomy” of Guadeloupe: the right and the far right criticize the government’s proposal – Franceinfo

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11:35 : Our colleagues from Guadeloupe The 1st, report that the evening was very hectic at Grand Camp. “Shots were fired between 7:30 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. and individuals attempted to rob the Carrefour Market. An unsuccessful attempt (…) Many remains of roadblocks litter the roads”, they report in a direct dedicated to the social crisis.

11:31 : There were no injuries. Several police officers were again the target of live ammunition and lead fire overnight in Martinique and Guadeloupe, AFP learned from police sources. A Raid police officer received a lead in his bulletproof vest at a roundabout in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe and a second was hit by a lead near looters, according to the agency. In Fort-de-France in Martinique, police officers were also targeted by “shots” when they intervened in a service station.

10:34 a.m. : The Bretons are watching this morning from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The Telegram made its headline on the “conflagration” in the West Indies.

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 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

10h55 : 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, castigate 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.

11:03 : 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 island’s soils. A striking nurse at the Choisy clinic, in Gosier, explains to franceinfo the origin of this anger.