In the Antilles, a wave of homicides in opposition to the backdrop of the visitors explosion | EUROtoday

Sixteen homicides in Martinique between January and June, twenty-seven in Guadeloupe and within the small communities of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy: a imprecise of unprecedented violence has been swallowing up on the Antilles because the starting of the yr. The macabre countdown has accelerated once more in May and June in these two territories, with seven males killed by Martinique since May 11, whereas 5 homicides have began the neighboring division in simply ten days, between May 26 and June 4. That day, throughout the night, he was a 13-year-old teenager who was shot useless in entrance of the village corridor of Landin, a commune within the north of the island of Basse-Terre.

The upward development is plain: the yr 2024 ended with 33 homicides in Guadeloupe, and 24 in Martinique, the place 17 had been dedicated by firearm. “For three years [2022]Martinique is experiencing an increase in facts of violence that I would describe from high the spectrum ”indicates to World Etienne Desplanques, the prefect of Martinique. “That is to say, specifically, armed flights, murder makes an attempt and homicides”adds the representative of the State.

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