Justice has made several stakes after the violence of November 2021 against sanitary policy. A police officer and several local gang members are suspected of having acted in “organized band”.
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Although he took care, according to his words, to “weigh [his] words”, the prosecutor of the Republic of Pointe-to-Pitre, Patrick Desjardins, has no less cast a pavement in the Mare, Friday 21 January, by presenting the press the developments of the investigation opened in November 2021. The Guadeloupe was then the theater of riots and scenes of looting on the back of movements against the immunization obligation and the sanitary pass. According to the magistrate of the Crown, “these urban violence actually involved in a perfectly organized and extremely planned setting”.
“There was nothing spontaneous on the nights of the 18th, 19th and 20th of November,” date of the first nights of riot in the neighborhoods of Pointe-à-Pitre and its surroundings, “says Desjardins. In the aftermath of these events, monitoring and listening are put in place. “It is then question of a sharing of roles between the youth belonging to the dog gang La Ri de Baie-Mahault and those of the gang Kriminal Sektion of Pointe-à-Pitre, that each, in his part of territory, sows panic , put the fire, attracts police and gendarmes on several points. In particular, it is question of the Grand-Camp sector, which must be inflammed, of police officers that must be fixed and a building that must be attacked ” , explains the prosecutor.
This will be that of the penitentiary service of insertion and probation (SPIP). On November 26, 2021, at 6 pm, several groups descend in the street, attack businesses, fire vehicles, draw barricades. Meanwhile, the SPIP is attacked and burned. Nineteen shots are drawn on the police. “It’s a miracle that there were no deaths,” says the magistrate.
“Determined procedure”
After this night of riot, the investigators are convinced that they are on the track of an “organized band”. The elements they have reveal the “active involvement of a police officer”. According to the Prosecutor, this official “did not hesitate to bring very specific elements on the positioning of his colleagues during the riot nights and himself involved in determining the objectives”.
Chief Brigadier assigned to the Departmental Directorate of Public Security, also delegated to the Alliance Union, he seems to have coordinated certain operations, including the one scheduled for December 30, 2021 at Pointe-à-Pitre airport . “The locations he could do around the airport aimed to allow the event that took place that day to reach the airport, with a specific procedure between, on the one hand. , the protesters and, on the other hand, gang members who, aims to occupy the slopes with stolen vehicles and burn them to disrupt air traffic, “details the magistrate. It was during the clashes that were then produced between the protesters and the movable gendarmes positioned on the road from the airport that the leader of the Collective Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon (LKP), Elie Domota, was arrested.
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