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The violence that has shaken Guadeloupe for nearly three months, against a background of contestation of the vaccination obligation, was “perfectly planned and organized”, with in particular the “active involvement” of a police officer, accused Friday the district Attorney. A total of eight people were indicted for “criminal association to commit crimes and offenses in an organized gang”.
It was following a judicial investigation entrusted to two investigating judges that eight people were indicted after 96 hours in police custody. Four were remanded in custody.
“No scene of violence” including the most recent “was spontaneous” insisted prosecutor Patrick Desjardins.
“In the surveillance that was put in place”, following the first riots in November, “we understood that it was a question of a sharing of roles between young people”, in particular gangs from Baie-Mahault, Pointe- à-Pitre and from Grand-Camp to Les Abymes.
After a night of riots, at the end of November, punctuated by shootings against the police and where the SPIP (penitentiary service of insertion and probation) was set on fire, “the investigations intensified”, held “in the greatest secrecy”, because appeared, according to the parquet floor, “the complicity, even the active implication of a police officer”, placed from now on under warrant of deposit.
The sub-prefecture of Pointe-à-Pitre targeted
Clashes took place between the demonstrators and the police. The union leader Elie Domota had been arrested, then released in the evening. In addition, the sub-prefecture of Pointe-à-Pitre was one of the next targets, according to the investigation.
According to the investigation, the goal was to obtain “substantial sums from large groups in exchange for the promise not to launch the rioters against their interests”. This explains the absence of attacks on the major shopping centers on the island.
Reacting to these indictments, the deputy Olivier Sevra indicated that he had met certain young people “as part of the negotiations to end the crisis” and now placed in police custody or in preventive detention. He calls for “impartial justice not neglecting their role in this process of appeasement and taking into account their desire to reintegrate”.
Throughout the day, in front of the court, a hundred people, including local trade union leaders, were present “in support” of those referred.
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