After the ramps of 25, September 26, 2025 in Antananarivo, part of the private sector doubts the reality of the supports announced by the State, in the light of the commitments that have remained a dead letter since 2009.
Shopping centers, supermarkets, but also offices and production workshops: looting that occurred on September 25 and 26, 2025 struck wide in the capital. In his speeches, President Andry Rajoelina spoke of devices to help operators get up. But, on social networks, business leaders who had already lost everything during the ” black »From 2009 say they no longer believe it. According to them, the promises of compensation formulated under the transition have never been followed up. Among these voices, a former tenant of the Supreme Center shopping center tells a private exchange with Andry Rajoelina, in 2009. The latter would have assured him: “The victims must calm down, they will be helped, everything that has been destroyed will be rebuilt”. 16 years later, despite “all the steps”, he claims to have received “the slightest ariary” from the State, still today led by the same official. “I don’t do politics and we no longer hope for this aid”he writes, while proposing that, if the state finally decided to honor its word, we would propose to allocate the fund to a project of collective interest.
No legal proceedings
This skepticism is anchored in the memory of a founding episode of the 2009 crisis: on January 26, a march of Analakely towards Andohatapenaka had degenerated into attacks against RNM – TVM then in waves of breakages and fires targeting in particular the Tiko group, Marc Ravalomanana’s goods and several brands (Jumbo Score, Courts, Supreme Center). The rampage had extended, in the following days, to the cities housing Magro stores. Dead “in the heat of the action” had been reported. No legal proceedings have since identified the officials, nourishing a feeling of impunity. The reconciliation law confides well to the Malagasy reconciliation council (CFM) a compensation mission, after investigation of losses and the link with the crisis. But the CFM is not intended to seek the authors, and the mechanics remains perceived as slow and uncertain. Hence the call of economic operators, today, to concrete gestures rather than new promises.
Antsa r.
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