Discomfort in Mayotte: after the anger of two teachers over aid, Élisabeth Borne breaks her silence and responds to the controversy

While visiting Mayotte at the beginning of the week, the Minister of State for Education found herself face to face with two teachers who were calling out to her. The sequence had caused a strong reaction when the minister turned her back on them and left before the conversation had even ended.

The controversy was growing on social media. Élisabeth Borne, who was visiting Mayotte with Prime Minister François Bayrou after the devastating cyclone Chido, had to face the anger of two teachers who challenged her in particular on the lack of help, on Monday, December 30.

A truncated sequence according to the minister

While the images captured by BFM were circulating on social media and making the opposition tense, Élisabeth Borne responded with a post on X in which she denounced “a truncated sequence”, which “does not reflect my exchanges with the two teachers at the start of the middle school of Kaweni”.

https://x.com/Elisabeth_Borne/status/1873949954303050070

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“Nobody came”

“There for 15 days, in all the shanty towns around here, Petite Terre, Grande Terre, Kawéni, Cavani, no one has come. You can say what you want on the news, the reality is there”, declares the man. The minister defends herself: “the reality is that there were distributions like you did”. “These distributions, no one has seen them”, replies the second man.

https://x.com/BFMTV/status/1873690320015159419

The minister replies that “they exist, but maybe people are not well informed”. “But the people from the Lycée des Lumières have to go to the town hall of Mamoudzou” , continues the man next to the teacher. It's a ten kilometer walk, round trip, in the blazing sun, without water or food. It's impossible, it's unfeasible,” explains the teacher, who sees the minister turn on her heels and simply answer him “OK”.

The scene largely shocked the opposition. Coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard speaks of “cowardice and contempt” which “are the main characteristics of Macronism”. Olivier Faure denounced a “terrible image”. “A minister cannot turn on her heels by scorning the testimony of teachers who are warning about the health situation”, adds the first secretary of the PS. A plan “Mayotte debout” will be presented by the government in Parliament soon.