2023-06-24 09:00:05
With « Wuambushu »the French government has launched since the end of April in Mayotte a large-scale operation with the stated objectives of destroying slums, deporting thousands of foreigners in an irregular situation and dismantling delinquent gangs.
We cannot ignore the difficulties of Mayotte. But by the government’s choice of a purely security option dealing only with the symptoms, the “Wuambushu” operation looks very much like a dead end: it does not solve any fundamental problem, on the contrary increases the tensions between the inhabitants of the island and aggravates the great poverty of already very precarious people. It reinforces the dangerous amalgam that aims to make people believe that immigration is solely responsible for insecurity and the congestion of undersized public services.
While we must of course strive to reduce delinquency and violence, these, particularly juvenile delinquency, are largely the result of phenomena of exclusion. The absorption of slums is essential in the long term but, in Mayotte as elsewhere, eviction without a solution only displaces and aggravates the problems.
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The demolitions of habitats – which can be implemented without judgment since the housing, development and digital development law (ELAN) of 2018 in Mayotte and Guyana – hinder the medical and social monitoring of families. THE “rehousing” promised, despite the recent development of social housing in the area (nearly 2,000 existing ones), the vast majority of them turn out to be temporary accommodation solutions that are often unsuited to the daily reality of families, particularly in terms of the distance from places of schooling of children.
Calls to hate
Expulsions from the territory – which are frequently the occasion for illegal practices such as the arbitrary attachment of children to third-party adults with a view to their removal – do not prevent the return, at the risk of their lives, of those who have no other choice for their future and that of their families but to return to Mayotte, one of the islands of the Comoros archipelago, where they have ties, family, and, because of the considerable differences of living standards between the islands of the archipelago, the hope of a better life.
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As was feared, the first weeks of the operation resulted in stirring up calls for hatred and violent action. Situations of vulnerability have worsened, families have been separated.
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