The ban applies to the municipalities of Fort-de-France, Lamentin, Ducos and Robert. It will be effective from Friday, September 20 at 6 p.m. local time until Monday, September 23 at 8 a.m., the decree further states. Since Wednesday evening, certain districts of Fort-de-France – the capital of the French Caribbean island with a population of around 350,000 – and Lamentin, its neighboring commune, have been under a curfew, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., until Monday.
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Despite a partial curfew, the night from Thursday to Friday was again “difficult,” the prefecture said, referring to three dams “erected and set on fire in Lamentin” and eight dams in the south of the island. Four people were arrested. The tensions that have been rising for several days are part of a movement against the high cost of living launched in Martinique in early September.
To justify the ban on demonstrations, the State representative in Martinique, in a press release, called for a measure intended to “end the violence and degradation carried out in meetings, but also the various obstacles to daily life and freedom of movement that are detrimental to the entire population, especially during the weekend.”
