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Diggers started destroying the Majicavo slum early Monday morning as part of Operation Wuambushu, which the French authorities first tried to launch last month. Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte began demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against substandard housing and illegal migration. Diggers started destroying the Majicavo slum early Monday morning as part of Operation Wuambushu, which the French authorities first tried to launch last month.
Diggers started destroying the Majicavo slum early Monday morning as part of Operation Wuambushu, which the French authorities first tried to launch last month. Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte began demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against substandard housing and illegal migration. Diggers started destroying the Majicavo slum early Monday morning as part of Operation Wuambushu, which the French authorities first tried to launch last month.
The affected families began picking up their precious belongings in anticipation of Monday’s demolition by the authorities. People, whose houses are going to be demolished, complain that their houses are being destroyed despite winning the court case. The French authorities are destroying shanties, which they allege are illegal and hubs of many illegal activities.
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Some families lamented the government for taking such a decision without prior consideration of their financial status to relocate. Some 135 dwellings will be razed out of around 1,000 sub-standard homes slated for destruction in Mayotte. The demolition of Talus 2, a shanty settlement, was originally scheduled to take place on April 25 but was suspended by a court decision. Two subsequent legal rulings then authorized the French state to proceed.
