According to several testimonies, the animal was seen not far from the Lamentin shopping center on Monday August 21, 2023. A new outing after a heavy episode of rain. This time again, many onlookers wanted to approach it or take pictures of the dangerous animal. The municipality of Lamentin wishes to secure the area.
“It looked like an arrival of the cycling tour. There were vehicles everywhere. There were parents with children and even some with infants on their arms. The sports hall roundabout was blocked. Some parked in the parking lot of the hypermarket and they crossed the small gutter to go to the edge of the bank on the other side“. This is what a witness who was present yesterday (Monday August 21, 2023) said during the last outing of the animal nicknamed “Georges the crocodile”.
The appearances of the reptile have been more and more frequent in recent weeks. He had been seen on July 24, 2023 by a group of onlookers in the same place, between the Lamentin sports hall and the Places d’armes shopping center.
On social networks, testimonials and photos are multiplying. A surfer indicates having seen it very closely and taken a picture of it when she parked her vehicle to go shopping.
It was squarely posed on the grass on the side of the parking lot of the hypermarket.
A few days earlier, one of our journalists from Martinique la 1ère had seen him on August 1, 2023.
According to the municipality of Lamentin, the banks would be more accessible for the animal after the cleaning of the places in prevention of potential floods related to the hurricane season. Worried by these regroupings, the city wishes to secure the area in order to avoid any accident.
Today, it’s up to who will take the closest photo of the crocodile with all the risks that entails. At the city level, we are working with the legal services so that an order is made concerning the approach to the shores and the parking. There is a danger.
Judith Laborieux, deputy mayor in charge of security, city of Lamentin
Several missions (in 2016, 2021 and 2022) have been organized in order to catch the wild animal which represents a real danger. Hunts under the authority of the State. But none allowed him to be apprehended. According to experts, the reptile evolves in a very vast space which does not facilitate its capture.
No one knows the exact race of “Georges”, but according to the authorities, “he is able to bite and kill, if something disturbs him or frightens him“. The greatest vigilance is required in the presence of the animal.
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