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1967 Guadeloupe riots

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ouvriers et passants guadeloupéens, contre 30 gendarmes blessés. Des syndicalistes et passants sont arrêtés, maltraités en prison et acquittés sous de faux chefs d'accusation. Au dossier de ces émeutes promptement scellé sous statut "secret défense" (jusqu'en 2017) se joint la destruction d'archives municipales et hospitalières qui accentuent le flou du compte des victimes.
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La France dépêche des gendarmes mobiles sur l'île peu après l'ordonnance du préfet Pierre Bolotte qui autorise des CRS, tous blancs, à tirer sur les manifestants qui incluent des lycéens de Baimbridge protestant contre les tueries de badauds de la veille. Ces émeutes causent la mort de 80 à 200
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Chamber of Commerce and waited while negotiations took place between union organizations and the employer representatives. Around 12:45 p.m., they learned from a representative that the negotiations had broken down and rumors began to spread.
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and demonstrators on the island during strikes following a racially motivated attack. The riots resulted in the deaths of 87 people (1985 estimate, 1967 estimate reported 7 deaths). Other sources estimate the number to be between 80 and 200.
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Sensitive affairs, by Fabrice Drouelle on France Inter, broadcast on Thursday April 28, 2016: "When the blacks are hungry, they will return to work" Guadeloupe, May 67, a bloody repression.
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to chase away Raphaël Balzinc, an old black and disabled shoemaker who set up his stall in front of the store. The white owner, was the local leader of the
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in France was not willing to negotiate because of the strategic location of the island. So these movements came into direct conflict with the
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Rendez with avec X, par Patrick Pesnot on France Inter, 7 March 2009: « May 1967 : The massacre at Pointe-Ă -Pitre.
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took off his helmet to wipe his forehead, he received a violent blow to his head severely injuring him, the
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movements taking place in other parts of the world, similar separatist movements also began to take form in
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On March 20, 1967, Vladimir Snarsky, white owner of a large shoe store in Basse-Terre, unleashes his
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Jacques Le Cornec, A West Indian kingdom: of stories and dreams and mixed peoples, L'Harmattan, 2005
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Raymond Gama and Jean Pierre Sainton, MĂ© 67, Guadeloupean publishing and distribution company, 1985
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The official toll from the authorities at the time of the massacre was 7 to 8 dead. In 1985, the
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Commemorations of the victims were held in 2017, demanding the opening of classified archives.
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Some sources state that the opening of fire on demonstrators was knowingly approved by the
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open fire in retaliation, causing the death of Jacques Nestor, a prominent activist of the
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ancestry significantly increased by the social transformation policies relaunched by the
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opened fire during violent demonstrations by strikers, causing several injuries. When a
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Where dogs bark by their tails, by Estelle-Sarah Bulle (Liana Levi, 2018) (in French)
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The French authorities initially believed the insurrection to be fomented by the
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are hungry, they will go back to work!". The Demonstrators started chanting "
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The employers' representative, Georges Brizzard, reportedly said: " When the
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went on strike to obtain a 2.5% salary increase and parity in social rights.
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May 67, by Thomas Cantaloube (Gallimard, the Black Series, 2023) (in French)
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Rauzduel, Rosan (15 November 1998). Publications de la Sorbonne (ed.).
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Jean Plumasseau, In the name of the fatherland, Éditions Nestor, 2012
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A mural was painted in remembrance of the victims on May 26, 2007 in
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Sainton, Jean-Pierre; Gama, Raymond (1985). Soged (ed.).
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but investigations revealed the riots to be spontaneous.
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Secretary of State for the French Overseas Territories
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On May 26, at noon, a crowd gathered in front of the
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A mural painted in the remembrance of the victims in
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Biloute, a song by Mé swasannsèt, album Rékòlt, 2010
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Index

Guadeloupe Independence movement

Point-Ă -Pitre
Guadeloupe
Racism
Socio-economic inequalities
Low Wages
Separatism
Riots
Traffic Obstruction
Civil disobedience
France

Police Nationale

CRS

National Gendarmerie
Mobile Gendarmerie
UNR
GONG
De Gaulle
Guadeloupe

gendarmes
Guadeloupe
African
French government
Hurricane Inez
Decolonisation

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