People enactment successful a peaceful protestation against the government's coronavirus illness (COVID-19) protocols done downtown Fort de France aft the unrest triggered by these curbs, which person already rocked the adjacent land of Guadeloupe, successful Fort-De-France, Martinique Nov. 28, 2021. (Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters)
PARIS—The prefect of Guadeloupe, the typical of the French cardinal authorities successful the overseas territory, connected Thursday said helium would widen a nightly curfew until Dec. 7, citing a continued menace to nationalist bid amid protestation implicit COVID-19 rules.
The determination acrophobic Pointe-a-Pitre, the archipelago’s main city, arsenic good arsenic 20 different municipalities, the prefect said successful a statement.
He added that nationalist bid connected the Caribbean land was inactive troubled, with constabulary arresting equipped protesters and continued blockades connected nationalist roads.
France past week said it is unfastened to sermon autonomy for Guadeloupe if it is successful the interests of the radical who unrecorded determination aft the convulsive protestation had shaken the territory.
By Tassilo Hummel