The Mayotte Uprising

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Mayotte is an overseas department, region and single territorial collectivity in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the coast of Mozambique belonging to the French Republic. Mayotte broke away from the Comoros Islands and remained with France after the Comoros Islands declared its independence in a referendum in 1974. Since the break away from the Comoros Islands, the overseas department has been rife with illegal immigration from the other islands belonging to the Comoros Islands collectivity, as a result of immigration from neighboring islands, 48% of the population are foreign nationals, crime was at a high with muggings, robberies and gang violence, poverty at an all time high with 89% of the population living under the poverty line and unemployment levels being poor with 34% of the inhabitants between the age of 15 and 64 not having a job after the population of Mayotte increased from 45,000 to 157,000 between 1975 and 2001.

Enough was enough said the local population with protests being formed by those originally belonging to the island and they took to the streets across the capital Mamoudzou demanding more be done to stop the issues surrounding the population on the island and help those in need. Protestors marched towards the headquarters of the Departmental Council of Mayotte calling for the President of the Departmental Council to resign and leave the country and return to mainland France. Only a small security detachment of National Police officers remained on the island with the majority of police officers taking part in protests and strikes across the island due to the lack of investment from the central French Government. The protestors numbered in the thousands and were being led by 26-year old Mélanie Haillet who was a former police officer who had been giving interviews to local news stations after leaving her job to demand more for the local population and to curb immigration.

 

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National Gendarmerie Intervention Group officers stationed in Mayotte​

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The French Government had authorised a deployment of fifty officers from the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group which is the elite police tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie which specialised in counterterrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats and tackling organised crime. The government also authorised a deployment of one hundred and seventy five officers from other branches of the National Gendarmerie which had been sent to Mayotte through a French Air and Space Force Airbus A330-200.

The Defence and National Security Council had convened in private and it was determined that the route cause was coming from the Comoros Islands itself and the country had been declining into decay after breaking away from the French Republic in 1975. The French insular region of Mayotte, the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel was a major destination for migrants from the Comoros with government corruption, poverty and the military seizing power in 1999 through a coup d'etat and violent clashes between state forces and the opposition erupting across the country of the Comoros.

The government in private was to authorise a deployment of French Army personnel and station them on the island of Mayotte to protect the sovereign territory of the French Republic and await any further orders from the French mainland.