The fight against illegal gold mining in French Guiana
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In French Guiana, illegal gold mining has been thriving for decades. Fuelled by clandestine workers from neighbouring Suriname and Brazil, this criminal enterprise has reached near-industrial proportions, destroying thousands of hectares of precious rainforest. But lately, the French armed forces have been cracking down on this illegal activity. FRANCE 24's Nicolas Pouillot reports on their efforts.
A programme prepared by Patrick Lovett and Florence Viala.
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Batista is speaking portuguese and from his accent he's certainly Brazilian
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No ge coming from Surinam
I don't see any suriname people why we get bad names from the French and Brazilian .
these are Brazilians thieving in French Guiana and we Surinamese gets bad reputation .
Brazilian and surinamese are doing the same stuff there, but the brazilian are quite numerous compare to the surinamese (because they have a bigger population)
@@tommarch.4493 It is not that, it is because Maranhão, the States of the North and Northeast are the poorest in the country with a 66% illiteracy rate.
@@tommarch.4493 Brazilian northern region is mostly inhabited.
@@ry6651 ew
@@gens0kyo omplaning? Brazilians southerns states have the higher literacy and are more rich, it also happens to be the most white states...
Are these legionaries ? Or regular french army personnel ?
The French Legion has a training program in Guyana. Are these soldiers,,Legionnaires’’ ?
No they are paratroopers coming from the 2rpima, marines infantry coming from 3 regiment of marines infrantry and legionnaire. You have of course on the ground the gendarmerie. And you have in more lots of planes , and frégates to protect Kourou (the place where we sent our plane in space)
If im not mistaken yes they are, I think part of their training is done therw
4 month Training in guayana for legionnaires. Dont care how tuff the locals arw theyll loose
......so in late 1800s here in Victoria Australia it happens that Melbourne was the richest city in the world due to gold prospectors finding lots of gold . of course the miners needed to have an official licence to stake their claims .At some point their was a rebellion which ended in the 'Eureka stockade' and government British troops bayonetted to death I think 12 miners who were manning the barricades. Those troopers in red uniform were trained killers who'd had plenty experience killing people in India . I think technically the law states it's illegal to mine or pick the resource of the land without a prospectors licence , it could be tin ore or copper ore or amethyst crystal or gold etc. .
Im french, I served, Mexico sucks as, I'm french guianan, I sent a email saying I'm from the states and i served in highschool at 16.
Que horror que fizeram com os brasileiros
???
São os Brazileiros quem estão fazendo horrores, parece…
Ужас
Laos
The Italian man, excused . His . Finner,
Even Batista knows what he is doing is wrong
Guyane française indépendante! Mouvement international pour l'indépendance de la Guyane!
LOL, Guiana voted against autonomy, the only one destroying Guiana are the braizilians.
If the Guiana is too small comparative with Brazilian Florest Amazon, so how have a lot of problems in this Guiana?
Guiana don’t have infrastructure, the French Government only wants stole the recourse of this place. JUST IT.
@@ricardocabrera8344 Autonomy and yet paying taxes? Who would want that anyway?
Jaja palhaso.
A guyana e Francesa desde o siglo XVI 😂😂😂
O povo la não quer independencia nenhum, fora perguntados, responderam não, tem boa consciencia de serem mais ricos que os seus vizinhos Leste e Oeste, melhora proteção social, melhoras escolas, cidadania Europeia, permitindo viajar, morar, trabalhar nesse continente sem nenhum problema…
Pede independencia da sua mae, filho.
Why theres a brazilian in French Guyana? Because they can't do this in Brazil, it isn't all that easy here we do our job!
By the way, this is getting really low "France 24"? Everybody, already notice what you are doing, and nobody is falling...
Because if you do that in Brazil they shoot you in midle of the forest that's it.
Cut that cable
you want us to clap our hands to your army? Does people's opinion on the presence of your armies in foreign land really matter? so if 90% of world population believe your presence is bad, will you move out? how about French population, when will they ever get a referendum on this issue? If a French politician tackles this issue, would he be able to do what the 90% of people want him to do or will every news outlet like yourself will accuse him of being a threat to "national security"?
Raging man ... Hold my Cognac 🥃
not foreign land
French Guyana is part of France. "Foreign land" you are just a racialist. You can go rage elsewhere thank you
Maybe if they legalized mining people wouldn’t be so poor there
Dream on. Even their own citizens are really poor in Guyana.
those people are mostly from brazil
@@digitalrandomart3049 Even Brazilians don't bother going to the French Guyana those days, except some adventurous types who are there just for the fun of it.
nous avons de l'or au ghana pour deby itno femme si tu veux m'appeler
Why would France still be interested in Guyana ? Hmmm🤔
stupid question, French Guiana is a French territory! I'll give you a question, why did the Russians invade Crimea, this territory does not belong to them? !!!!! in addition, there is the KOUROU space center from which European ARIANE rockets and Russian rockets are fired (cooperation between ESA and Russia!)
on a geopolitic point of view (only), it's because of the ressources, the location, the EEZ, the space-launch, and on others point of view ... well frenchs lives there, and since a long time, it's a place founds by french, they didn't take the choice to be independant, it's proper France
At the beginning there were only the french.
Now the french are still here
@Doffy Rob gold, they show the ilegal ones, not the legal ones (who differ almost nothing, from the ilegals...)...
French Guyana belongs to them, that’s why
California Conservation Corps sucks as, I'm Juggernaut Johnny. I have fire school at the mid regional valley center in del Rey California & I'm South American & Laos.
Modern colonialism
You’re on CZcams. Stop crying about colonialism
Yep. Of course.
Ahh the French.... just blame the Brazilians and they can pretend they do no harm. This is what is called the ostrich mentality. You duck your head under the land and the danger is gone.
Aaah gabriel Teixeira. Just trashtalking et generalizing the french to pretend there is nothing bad with Brazilians mass migration in French Guyana.
This is what is called the ostrich strategy.
@@gringologie9302 There isn't such a thing as mass migration of Brazilians to the French Guyana. They just show a dozen there. Most Brazilians would never live in a place like that.