The trial of the November 2021 riots in Guadeloupe opens in Fort-de-France | EUROtoday

After greater than 4 years of investigation, 13 individuals suspected of getting participated to various levels within the riots which shook Guadeloupe within the fall of 2021 are being tried for “criminal conspiracy” earlier than the Fort-de-France courtroom (Martinique) from Monday January 26. Among the defendants, a police officer, accused of getting helped set up the occasions, males introduced by the prosecution as “gang members”rappers and even road mediators. The so-called “big brothers” trial is scheduled to final three weeks.

In November 2021, the Guadeloupe archipelago suffered large Covid-19 contamination, and trembled below the problem of the vaccination obligation for caregivers. The union battle between nurses and different medical personnel who refuse the vaccine towards the virus is escalating. In mid-November, when the final mobilization was introduced by the UGTG, a pro-independence union that had been very lively till then, Guadeloupe was set alight. Barricades are erected nearly in all places, manned by younger individuals, and never so younger individuals, hooded, generally armed, who transfer automobile tires and set them on hearth, on roundabouts or on the island’s nerve facilities.

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