Kawéni, the most important slum in France, wiped off the map | EUROtoday

Kawéni was pulverized, leveled from the face of the earth. Where there as soon as stood a city of “bangas” – precarious huts – all that is still are bald hills, scattered piles of tangled wooden and sheet steel, over a number of sq. kilometers. The largest slum in France, positioned in Mayotte on the western outskirts of the capital, Mamoudzou, disappeared with its inhabitants, like all the opposite casual neighborhoods on the island, worn out on Saturday December 14 by Cyclone Chido. Among its 20,000 inhabitants, the estimated inhabitants of Kawéni the place many unlawful immigrants from the Comoros stay, solely 5,000 have joined shelters recognized by the prefecture of Mayotte.

Some 500 victims discovered refuge within the Lycée des Lumières in Kawéni and 400 others within the metropolis’s skilled lodge college. “It’s desolationtestifies the rector of the Mayotte academy, Jacques Mikulovic. We are reaching the purpose of exhaustion of water and meals shares. Need to restock shortly. The forest, which was a meals supply, was devastated. »

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