In Guadeloupe, a violent begin to the yr | EUROtoday

Cancel or not the Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) carnival, Sunday January 11? The debate, which has raged within the archipelago for the reason that homicide of a younger man on Sunday January 4, has lastly been resolved. Thursday January 8, Thierry Devimeux, the prefect of the Guadeloupe area, introduced a change within the occasions of the primary festive occasion of the yr, with a rise and densification of safety gadgets to oversee the processions.

“We’re moving the carnival forward from 8 p.m. to 3 p.m., because at night, it’s more complicated to manage security”he defined, returning to his proposal for whole cancellation of the parade imagined for “show that Guadeloupe no longer accepts this violence”, in his phrases.

In the speedy neighborhood of the primary road of Pointe-à-Pitre, the place teams flow into “tumble” in entrance of hundreds of spectators, an 18-year-old boy was shot a number of occasions, Sunday. This just isn’t the primary time that violence has mourned this era which runs from Epiphany to the beginning of Lent, highly regarded with the inhabitants gathered each weekend within the streets of the municipalities of the archipelago and Pointe-à-Pitre. In 2025 specifically, a 16-year-old younger man was stabbed a number of occasions and died from his accidents throughout one in all these carnival evenings.

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