Locals jeered and shouted their grievances Thursday during Macron’s visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago.
France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks to local residents during his visit in Pamandzi, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on December 19, 2024. Distraught and angry inhabitants of Mayotte shouted out their despair to French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit on December 19, five days after the Indian Ocean archipelago was devastated by a cyclone, with lacking water and food, and fear of looting topping the grievances.
“I decided to sleep here because I considered that given what the population is going through,“ leaving the same day could have “installed the idea that we come, we look, we leave,“ he told reporters late Thursday.Emergency teams are still working at full pace, searching for survivors and supplying desperately-needed aid.
And as Macron talked with hospital workers, one staff member said under her breath: “Two more days and we won’t be able to feed the patients anymore. I’m disgusted.” Later, Macron said they aimed to have supplied all parts of the archipelago with food and water by Sunday at the latest. Bayrou, speaking later to France 2 television station, set an ambitious target of rebuilding the island in “two years” through a “superhuman” effort.
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