TO “security conference” For elected officials, a “Letter to the Mahorais”, and numerous interviews in local media. The prefect of Mayotte, François-Xavier Bieuville, widely disseminated his message on Thursday, October 24: the first results “for the restoration of civil peace” They are there. With a fall in “general default of 5.8%”between January and October, compared to the same period in 2023. According to the prefect, “Fewer violent acts” They were committed on an island where the increase in clashes between rival gangs, with unaccompanied minors, and the increase in thefts and violent assaults were one of the causes of the dam crisis that began at the end of January. The masonry of school buses, whose windows will be equipped with polycarbonate plates, “they have dropped 7%, but they persist”Mr. Bieuville also confirmed.
Contacted by the worldsaid Mayotte prosecutor Yann Le Bris “I do not want to comment on the figures given by the prefectural authority”. “Judicial activity is sustained by a significant number of releases and a prison that currently houses 674 detainees.” [le 29 octobre]that is, an overpopulation rate of 240% », However, the magistrate specifies. Much more doubtful about this announced decrease in late payment, the attorney general of the Court of Appeal of Réunion and Mayotte, Fabienne Atzori, affirms that “It does not correspond to the perception of the judicial authority when we look at the figures from the Mamoudzou prosecutor’s office”. The magistrate said “be careful with cyclical effects”, and wonders about the possibility “people’s fatigue” to file a complaint.
For part of the Maori public opinion, this drop in defaults of 5.8% is received with suspicion and disbelief. Because two cases of violence have recently caused great emotion on the island. First, the murder of a 63-year-old farmer on October 19 in Passamainty, by three hooded men. Then, threats with a machete against a motorist, on October 11 in Koungou, to steal a mobile phone. The attack was filmed and broadcast on social media. In support of the victim, the Mayotte Citizens Collective 2018 decided to block the foreigners’ office in the Mamoudzou prefecture, establishing a link between the regularization of undocumented immigrants and the increase in violence.
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