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Macron swears in angry exchange with residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte

December 21, 2024
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Macron swears in angry exchange with residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte

Angry residents of a Mayotte neighbourhood damaged by Cyclone Chido heckled French President Emmanuel Macron, who replied they would be in “deeper shit” without France as he toured the Indian Ocean archipelago.

Nearly a week after the storm hit, the lack of potable water was testing nerves in France’s poorest overseas territory.

“Seven days and you’re not able to give water to the population!” one man shouted at Macron.

“Don’t set people against each other. If you set people against each other, we’re screwed,” Macron told the crowd in the Pamandzi neighbourhood on Thursday night.

“You are happy to be in France. If it wasn’t for France, you would be in way deeper shit, 10,000 times more, there is no place in the Indian Ocean where people receive more help.”

In the past, Macron has often got in trouble with off-the-cuff remarks in public that he says are meant to “tell it like it is” but have often come across as insensitive or condescending to many French people and contributed to his sharp drop in popularity over his seven years as president.

Back home, opposition lawmakers pounced on the comments on Friday.

“I don’t think the president is exactly finding the right words of comfort for our Mayotte compatriots, who, with this kind of expression, always have the feeling of being treated differently,” Sebastien Chenu, a lawmaker from the far-right National Rally (RN), said.

Hard-left lawmaker Eric Coquerel said Macron’s comment was “completely undignified”.

Asked about the comments in an interview on Friday, Macron said some of the people in the crowds were RN political militants, and that he wanted to counter the opposition’s narrative that France had been neglecting Mayotte.

“I hear that narrative, which is fuelling the National Rally and some of the people who were insulting us yesterday, whereby ‘France is doing nothing’,” Macron told MayotteLa1ere.

“The cyclone wasn’t decided by the government. France is doing a lot. We must be more efficient, but divisive, rabble-rousing speeches won’t help.”

Officials in Mayotte have only been able to confirm 35 fatalities from Chido, but some have said they fear thousands could have been k!lled.

Some of the islands’ worst-affected neighbourhoods, hillside shantytowns comprised of flimsy huts that are home to undocumented migrants, have not yet been reached by rescue workers. REUTERS

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