With Safina Soula, uninhibited anti-migrant activism with xenophobic hints-Liberation

Students who cannot obtain a visa for the metropolis; Foreigners in a regular situation whose residence permit is not renewed; Asylum seekers who despair of seeing their file dealt with by the immigration service of the Mayotte prefecture … Until May 19, none of them could access the « foreigners office ». Access to the prefecture, in Mamoudzou, was blocked by half a dozen « Bwénis », these Mahorais women who multiply actions against immigration and insecurity placing the overseas department.

The Collective of Citizens of Mayotte 2018 had already prevented access to state services for several months in previous years. At their head, a farmer, Safina Soula, who fights against those she designates as « Enemies opposite ». Understand immigrants from Comoros, 70 km from Mayotte, transported by smugglers on motorized boats.

The forties, black turban on the head, close to the right and the national rally, wishes to prevent « Massive regulation of foreigners » and militates for the abolition of the territorialized residence permit. While in mainland France, a foreigner benefiting from a residence permit can circulate freely throughout France, in Mayotte, he cannot leave the department. « Therefore, foreigners are rooted and invaded us, overwhelming all public services, Safina soula plague. We are at war. «  During