Residents of Mangajou village, in Sada commune, set up roadblocks after violence broke out overnight from Sunday to Monday.
Classes at four schools in central Mayotte will be suspended on Wednesday due to a blockade imposed two days ago in Sada (centre) to denounce the violent episode.
“As a precautionary measure and in view of the need to ensure an adequate level of supervision of students”, classes at Sada comprehensive secondary school and Sada, Ouangani and Chiconi colleges “will be suspended on Wednesday morning,” the rectorate said in a press release.
The move comes after two days of traffic restrictions to the venues, which prevented staff and most of its 5,770 students from going there, according to the same source.
Since Monday, residents of the village of Mangajou, in Sada commune, have put up roadblocks following violence that occurred overnight from Sunday to Monday. Four vehicles were torched in the village using gas cylinders stolen from a nearby shop.
Nine arrests
The prefecture’s general secretary, Daniel Fermon, went there on Monday to meet with residents and elected officials at the city and department level. A commitment agreement against insecurity was to be signed but community representatives asked for “more time to think” and they defended the roadblocks on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said.
Nine people were arrested Monday evening as part of an investigation into the violence, including three French adults. Most live in the neighboring commune of Chiconi, and two of them were identified through video surveillance images among residents mobilized in Mangajou at noon on Monday, according to sources close to the matter.
According to the gendarmerie, clashes occurred again on the night of Monday to Tuesday, with hooded youths targeting car drivers.
