In Guyana, a gold mining web site sufferer of a double theft | EUROtoday

For the fifth time for the reason that starting of the yr, a authorized mining web site has been robbed in Guyana. Wednesday, May 28, two gold mines have been victims of armed theft within the west of the French division of South America.

Several workers have been briefly retained on the spot by the authors of the robberies. The latter “Had already left and no injuries were noted on the spot”stated General Jean-Christophe Singive, commander of the gendarmerie in Guyana, specifying that the knowledge relationship from this remoted space, with out street entry, “Are still plot”.

Avised on the finish of the morning, the authorities employed the native antenna of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Unit (GIGN) which was deployed by two helicopters on the websites situated within the remoted sector of Crique Espoir south of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. The two gold mines, six kilometers away, have been secured by the police round 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. native time, confirmed to the France-Presse (AFP) company, the Singive General.

Running of robberies in latest months

The gendarmerie analysis part was to be dispatched to the scene within the night of Wednesday to make the primary observations and gather testimonies.

This theft of a authorized mining web site has been the third since early April. A phenomenon in resurgence in latest months, when Guyana had skilled a steady decline in the sort of flight lately.

According to the information transmitted by the gendarmerie to the France-Presse company, 13 mines theft passed off in 2020, ten in 2021, six in 2022, three in 2023 and three in 2024 close to Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, many of the mines opened in France – 102 out of 123 – is situated in Guyana, the place the extraction is just gold.