In Mayotte, the Border Police Accused of Causing Shipwrecks and the Death of Migrants From the Comoros

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Since 2010, several hundred Comorians have died at sea trying to rally the French archipelago. The investigation conducted jointly by "Le Monde" and the investigative media "Lighthouse Reports" shows that police manoeuvres are involved in several of these shipwrecks.

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It is about 4 o'clock in the morning, this 15th July, when Zubert (the people mentioned by their first name wanted to keep their anonymity) approaches the chiseled coast of Sada, in the south-west of Mayotte. Ten hours earlier from the island of Ndzouani (formerly Anjouan), in the Comoros, the 25-year-old man took a place in a kwasa-kwassa, a fishing boat less than 10 meters long, to reach the French archipelago of the Indian Ocean. Zubert grew …