The Malgache capital was still immersed this Thursday, September 25, at night in chaos after a day marked by looting, tear gas and fires of three political figures in a context of anger against power.
Taking the Pirate Flag of the Japanese series “One Piece” and a sign of meeting of protest movements against the regime, even in Indonesia or Nepal, the protesters responded to a call to the mobilization released on social networks against incessant water and electricity cuts.
On the way to New York for the UN General Assembly, President Malgache Andry Rajoelina had not yet expressed himself in the situation in the capital on Thursday night.
Despite a grid in the early hours of the Center of Antananarivo for a large device of security forces, banks, supermarkets, appliances and even a cable car station, energy symbol, were attacked by fire and looting outings.
A decreed curb touch
At dusk, the ramps continued without complying with the presence of security. The rally was prohibited the previous day by order of the prefect of Antananarivo, arguing the risk of public order disorders.
After a day to resonate to the rhythm of the detonations of granadas of tear gas and police sirens, he decreed on Thursday night a curfew until Friday 5 local hours.
A sign of the flammability of the situation, one hundred students of the French high school were blocked at the end of the day in the establishment, prohibited by leaving it for security problems. All city schools must remain close on Friday and Air France’s flight against landing in Antananarivo on Thursday night was unwound to Mauricio.
Despite its exceptional natural wealth, Madagascar remains one of the poorest countries on the planet. Almost 75% of the population lived below the poverty line in 2022, according to the World Bank.
The houses of three parliamentarians close to power were lit and the protesters stagnated firefighters who tried to extinguish the flames that affect the chamber of the Lalatian senator Rakontondrazafy, designated at the beginning of the year by the president.
President Andry Rajoelina, 51, was selected at the end of 2023 during an election boycotted by the opposition and in which less than half of the registered voters participated. The journalist Sans Frontières denounced “police violence against at least three journalists” in a statement on Thursday and asked the “authorities to identify officials.”
The protesters, in groups of one hundred people, tried to frustrate the dams of the security forces at the beginning of the day to reach the meeting point in the Ambohijatovo district
Source: BFM TV
