Mural painting ‘Émeutes de mai 1967 en Guadeloupe’ - Pointe-à-Pitre

Located Place de la Victoire in Pointe-à-Pitre, the mural “Émeutes de mai 1967 en Guadeloupe » (Riots of May 1967 in Guadeloupe” commemorates the 1967 riots, brutally repressed by the police. A thousand construction workers were on strike since the 24th of May to get a salary increase of 2%, when riots broke out in Place de la Victoire in the early afternoon, then spread to Pointe-à-Pitre and its suburbs. The strike degenerated into the massacre of many Guadeloupian people on the 26th, 27th and 28th of May. The exact number of victims of the massacre and their identity remain unclear to this day. The mural in bas-relief, painted on the wall of the Kermadec secondary school in the port of Pointe-à-Pitre, was inaugurated on the 26th of May 2007. It represents the Guadeloupians people gathered together, facing the police forces who take aim and fire their rifles.