About 400 exhausted and traumatised survivors of Hurricane Irma, which pummelled Caribbean islands last week, arrived in France and the Netherlands on Monday aboard military planes. French President Emmanuel Macron is in the Caribbean on Tuesday, visiting the French islands hit by Hurricane Irma. Arriving in Eindhoven, 30-year-old Clara James said the Dutch side of St Martin "literally looks like a war zone." I can't describe it," said James, a Rotterdam resident who was returning from St Martin, where she visiting her ailing father when the hurricane struck. 'Lost everything'In France, opposition firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon has demanded a parliamentary inquiry into whether enough security forces have been sent to restore order on St Martin after looting broke out after the storm.

Source: The Local September 12, 2017 07:30 UTC