French intervention to suppress protests on the island of “Martinique”

According to Isna, the French News channel “BFMTV” reported, quoting sources in the French police, that the authorities of Paris have sent a unit of special police forces to the island of Martinique, one of the French overseas colonies in the Caribbean Sea, with the aim of suppressing the protests.

According to this report, this decision was taken after the rise of unrest in this island in protest against the increase in living expenses.

This French channel stated that this unit consisting of the rapid response forces of the French police left for the island of Martinique this evening (Saturday).

Authorities on the island of Martinique have banned demonstrations in the administrative district of Fort-de-France, the island’s center, and three other districts until Monday morning due to the escalation of unrest.

Authorities imposed a nightly curfew in parts of the island of Fort-de-France on Thursday, after violent protests and unrest over rising food and living costs erupted in Martinique over the past week. This port city is the entry point for almost all imported items to this island.

People’s protests on the island of Martinique have been rising since the beginning of September against living conditions and have gradually become intense, so that it was reported that last Monday, at least 6 police officers were injured by bullets during the unrest.

At the end of last May, the “New Caledonia” region, another French overseas colony located between the countries of Australia and Fiji, witnessed deadly riots in response to a series of new electoral reforms that the French Parliament approved for this region. These riots led to countless fires and extensive looting of shops and public properties, including schools, and several deaths and dozens of injuries, including about 60 police officers, and the arrest of hundreds of people.

The unrest in New Caledonia became a new factor in the dispute between France and the Republic of Azerbaijan. After France accused Azerbaijan of “interfering” in the political affairs of the New Caledonia region, Baku denied and condemned this French claim.

The Republic of Azerbaijan had invited the separatists from the overseas regions under French rule, including “Martinique”, “Guyana”, “New Caledonia” and “Polynesia” to a conference in July 2023. As a result of this conference, a new organization called “Baku Initiative Group” was formed, which declared its goal to support “liberation and French anti-colonial movements”.

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