a “major gendarmerie operation” is launched to regain “control” of the highway from the airport to Nouméa, declares Gérald Darmanin | EUROtoday

In Vallée-du-Tir in Nouméa, one of many neighborhoods the place the rioters are essentially the most quite a few and greatest organized, a motorcyclist misplaced his life late Friday afternoon in a highway accident, based on the general public prosecutor, Yves Dupas.

The authorities of New Caledonia referred to as throughout a press convention for an finish to roadblocks and barricades. “We are killing each other and we cannot continue like this”declared Vaimu'a Muliava, member of the federal government answerable for the general public service. “People are already dying not because of armed conflicts, but because they have no access to healthcare, no access to food”he added.

“There are people on dialysis, who should have been on dialysis, who have died”he stated. “Free the roads, let the doctors and nurses go and save people. Let people move around”urged Mr. Muliava, on the sixth day of this disaster. “One more day is one day too many”he declared once more.

Despite the quite a few shops and companies burned or looted, the roads blocked, New Caledonia shouldn’t be the sufferer of ” shortage “additionally assured this member of the native authorities, ” but [elle] will become so if (…) this destructive path [continue] ».

The New Caledonian government called “to reason”. If the “social misery that is expressed” is understandable, said Vaimu'a Muliava to the youth, with the destruction of businesses and infrastructure, “you are punishing yourself”.