Mobile Gendarmes Sent Back to Martinique

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Protesters protest again against food prices in the overseas territory. In the margins of this movement, dams were erected in some neighbourhoods and gendarmes were targeted. The Ministry of the Interior sent reinforcements.

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Five gendarmes were slightly injured during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday by lead fire, during a patrol conducted to secure a road from Fort-de-France, according to a source in the gendarmerie, quoted by Agence France-Presse.

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Two squads of mobile gendarmes will join Martinique in reinforcement of the units already on site. On the island of the West Indies, urban tensions have been taking place for several months. They occur against the background of social tensions but also of the collateral effects of the drug traffic. Several gendarmes have been injured in recent days. "Last night, in Fort-de-France, criminals opened fire on mobile gendarmes, while the security for…