(FILES) Protesters gather in front of a police cordon outside a Carrefour supermarket amid a cost of living crisis, in Le Francois commune in the French Caribbean island of Martinique on September 21, 2024. "Bekes make the law": a Martinique woman shouts, struggling to make ends meet, sums up the socio-identital tensions that run through Martinique, against the backdrop of the legacy of slavery on this island in the Caribbean colonised by France in 1635. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)