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Tein appeared in court in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa, along with ten other people who were arrested on Wednesday in the troubled French Pacific territory. Local media reported that the eleven appeared before the public prosecutor Yves Dupas on Saturday morning. Dupas opened a judicial investigation and ordered Tein to be placed in pre-trial detention in mainland France, which is about 16,800 kilometres away from New Caledonia. Thein is the leader of the Field Action Coordination Cell or CCAT, which is a pro-independence movement, that has called for an end to France ruling over New Caledon...
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The gutted remains of six cars smoulder in a parking lot in Nouméa, capital of the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia. Smoke billows over the city, a grey backdrop for the colourful flags flown by the Indigenous Kanak people as they take to the streets in protest. It’s May 15 2024, and the French Pacific territory is gripped by riots, violence and at least six deaths, a crisis kicked off by a constitutional change taking place over 16,000 kilometres away. In the coming days, hundreds of French gendarmes will attempt to put out the flames. May's sometimes deadly clashes were triggered b...
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French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to lift the state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, in a move meant to allow political dialogue following the unrest that left seven people dead and a trail of destruction, his office said. According to the statement, the state of emergency will not be extended “for the moment” and will therefore end at 5 am local time on Tuesday. The decision aims at “enabling meetings of the various components” of pro-independence movement FLNKS, the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, and allow elected officials and other l...
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An independence leader in New Caledonia has called on supporters to “remain mobilised” across the French Pacific archipelago. Christian Tein, who heads the pro-independence party The Field Action Coordination Unit, called for "resistance" to Paris-imposed electoral reforms, which the indigenous Kanak people fear will further marginalise them. Tein made the comments in a video, posted on social media after he and other pro-independence leaders recently met with French President Emmanuel Macron. Political unrest has flared up in New Caledonia, with protesters erecting make-shift barricades on ro...
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged Thursday the removal of protesters' barricades in riot-hit New Caledonia. He also announced he would send police forces to help battle deadly unrest in the French Pacific archipelago. The gendarmes “will stay as long as necessary," even as French security services focus on safeguarding the Paris Olympics in coming weeks, Macron said. Pro-independence Indigenous Kanak leaders, who declined Macron's offer of talks by video a week earlier, greeted him in person on Thursday. They also joined a meeting in Nouméa with rival pro-Paris leaders who want New Caledo...
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French President Emmanuel Macron is travelling to New Caledonia after deadly armed clashes gripped the nation. The move signals French authorities’ growing confidence that reinforced security measures in the region are bringing the French Pacific territory under control. “He will go there tonight,” government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot said on Tuesday, “The return to calm is starting to arrive.” A state of emergency was declared by Paris last week and 1,000 reinforcements were sent in to bolster security forces that had lost control of some parts of the New Caledonian capital Nouméa. Sixth f...
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French security forces utilised armored vehicles and backhoes to clear charred barricades, aiming to regain control of the highway leading to the international airport in violence-stricken New Caledonia. The archipelago, marred by deadly unrest, has long been a focal point of indigenous aspirations for independence from France.
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France has accused Azerbaijan of meddling in its Pacific archipelago territory of New Caledonia. Despite the vast geographical and cultural distance between the Caspian state and the French Pacific territory, this claim is rooted in a complex web of historical, political, and diplomatic tensions. The Crisis in New CaledoniaNew Caledonia, located between Australia and Fiji, is a French territory with a history of striving for independence. The recent unrest in New Caledonia was ignited by a new electoral law perceived by the indigenous Kanak population as discriminatory. This law allows people ...
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France has imposed a 11 day state of emergency in the archipelago following protests over voting reforms backed by the government in Paris. About 1,000 reinforcements for the security services were deployed with increased powers to quell unrest in New Caledonia, which has a population of about 270,000 and whose indigenous population has long sought independence. French authorities there and at the interior ministry in Paris said that five people, including two police officers, have been killed since Monday. At least 60 members of the security forces were injured, and 214 people were arrested o...
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A French minister has accused Azerbaijan of interfering in the politics of New Caledonia, the French Overseas territory that has seen a startling outbreak of fresh political violence. In a TV interview, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said it was "not a fantasy, but a reality" that certain pro-independence leaders in New Caledonia had "made a deal" with Azerbaijan. He also insisted that the French government had no intention of allowing others to interfere in the county's territories. "Even if there are attempts at interference ... France is sovereign on its own territory, and so much the be...
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