It is the main gateway to illegal immigration in France. In Mayotte, a paradise island and French department lost in the heart of the Indian Ocean, the number of illegal immigrants from the neighboring archipelago of the Comoros is exploding. 60% of deportations to the French border are done from Mayotte. Every day around ten motor boats arrive in secret, overloaded with Comorians looking for a better future.
Despite its status as a department, social benefits and retirement pensions in Mayotte are 50% lower than in mainland France and the average income per capita is 6 times lower. Schools and high schools are overcrowded, shanty towns eat up the hillsides and the island is regularly plagued by violence.
Faced with these tensions, the state is struggling to find answers. The department receives the least assistance per capita in all of France. The police and gendarmes are overwhelmed and some Mahorais citizens are organizing themselves into militias to patrol their neighborhoods. With radical methods.
Director: Marc Garmirian
1 окт 2024
