The shots did not do victims. Dams always block the main roads on the island, after a call to the general strike against the vaccine bond of caregivers and for salary increases.
Le Monde with AFP.
The voltage at Martinique has increased by a notch in the night from Monday 22 to Tuesday, November 23, when members of the police and firefighters have been targeted several times, according to public safety , by fire gun fire and projectiles that did not do wounded. They had been dispatched for trash lights on the public road in the district of Sainte-Thérèse in Fort-de-France, according to police sources.
“We intervened around 11:30 pm in support of the firefighters. We received projectiles. Other trash and vehicle fires were lit around 1:45, it was at that moment that patrols suffered Shots of 9 mm repeatedly. Impacts were identified on vehicles, “said Commander Joël Larcher, responsible for the Communication of the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of Fort-de-France.
Blocked roads
Important dams blocked Tuesday, like the day before, the main roads of the island. They had been installed early Tuesday morning to the appeal of an intersyndical of seventeen organizations, who call on the general strike for a variety of claims, including the end of the vaccination obligation and suspensions for caregivers, but also The rise in wages and social minima and lower prices for fuels and gas. Access to the agglomeration of Fort-de-France, in the center of the island, is impossible from the South and the North. Trucks, taxis, but also pallets and tires were arranged at strategic points.
“We say to the prefect to respect us, launched Eric Bellemarre, Secretary General Force Ouvrière Martinique, on the antenna of ROI RCI Tuesday morning. The Prime Minister announced that it was necessary to open a space of dialogue, but Its local representative did not have to receive the message. “The strikers are indignant not to have been received on Monday by the Prefect of Martinique at the end of the first day of manifestation, thereby justifying the hardening of the movement.
The violence continues to the neighboring Guadeloupe, with a social protest related to the immunization obligation against CVIV-19. Gendarmes also wiped out real bullets, reported Tuesday morning the overseas ministers, Sébastien Lecornu, and from the inside, Gérald Darmanin. The restoration of public order in Guadeloupe is the “prerequisite for any discussion”, warned Darmanin.