Stores looted, cars burnt on island of Martinique

[Joanne98]

Source: AP


PARIS (AP): Vandals burnt cars and looted stores in Martinique overnight, police said on Wednesday, after nearly three weeks of labor protests on the French Caribbean island.

Some 20 people were detained after the destruction in Fort-de-France, the island's chief city, according to the police headquarters on Martinique. Police did not give a number of stores or cars damaged, but the looting and burning did not appear to be widespread.

Martinique has not seen the same degree of violence that recently hit the nearby French island of Guadeloupe. Weeks of strikes on Guadeloupe over wages and high living costs degenerated into rioting last week in which one labor activist died.

Guadeloupe's strikes and labor protests spread to Martinique, where talks were to resume Thursday between employers and labor unions on ending a 20-day strike that has halted businesses on the island.

Protesters walked out of the talks on Monday after business owners did not offer a concrete counterproposal to demands for a monthly pay increase of euro354 euros ($452), strike organizer Michael Monrose said.

On Guadeloupe, talks aimed at ending the paralyzing 36-day-old general strike were to resume on Wednesday.



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[jody]

1. Coming soon to a city near you? n/t

[Soylent Brice]

2. certainly possible. n/t

[AlexDeLarge]

4. If you're not a

consumer then what are you?

[Soylent Brice]

5. ... a sucker??

:shrug:

[natrat]

3. 90% of the island owned by a few rich whites

"The unrest was further aggravated last week when wealthy white landowner Alain Huyghues-Despointes publicly criticised mixed-race marriages and said he preferred to 'preserve his race'."--What idiots,living on a small island and provoking a poor uneducated population.And then sending in an all white riot police unit from france to fight all black rioters. Fucking idiots. Give them a raise,give them something,it's their island


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150062/Britons-flee-French-island-Guadeloupe-rioters-turn-white-families.html