MADRID Dec. 17 () –
The Government of France has announced the imposition of a curfew in the Mayotte archipelago, where emergency services are still searching for victims and evaluating the extent of the damage caused by the passage of cyclone ‘Chido’.
Local authorities expressed their fear on Sunday that there were hundreds of deaths due to the storm, although the official balance updated on Monday shows only 25 deaths and more than 1,300 injured, 45 of them in serious condition.
The Ministry of the Interior has decreed a curfew between 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. and the acting head of this portfolio, Bruno Retailleau, who has moved to the island, has admitted that the area “is devastated.” “The State is mobilized from the first hour to help the victims and avoid other crises,” he said this Tuesday on social networks.
The cyclone has also led to an internal political debate in France, with voices such as that of the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who have directly criticized the prime minister, François Bayrou, for attending a meeting in the city of the one who is mayor, Pau. “I would have preferred him to get on a plane to Mayotte,” Braun-Pivet said in statements to Franceinfo.
The leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, has also pointed out on France 2 that “the prime minister’s place was not in Pau”, since “the priority is Mayotte”.
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