In New Caledonia, after Emmanuel Macron's go to, pro-independence neighborhoods stay mobilized | EUROtoday

After 13 days of riots, the mission of “restore order in the days to come” set by President Emmanuel Macron is proving tough. Security has nonetheless not been restored in Nouméa and its suburbs. For French individuals in mainland France caught because of the riots, the primary flights aboard navy plane took off on Saturday from Magenta aerodrome in Nouméa to Australia and New Zealand.

On Friday, a 48-year-old man was killed at a roadblock, bringing the variety of victims of the riots to seven. According to the primary parts of the investigation, a police officer used his weapon after being attacked by rioters at a roadblock situated within the Koutio district, the place clashes proceed.

Politically, the categorical go to of the President of the Republic on Thursday appears to have resolved nothing. Saturday morning, the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) renewed its name for calm, whereas making the withdrawal of the reform a prerequisite for dialogue. Because it’s neither withdrawn nor suspended, and the assembly of parliamentarians in Versailles isn’t formally postponed. “I am committed to ensuring that this reform does not pass through force”the Head of State merely declared on the finish of his conferences with New Caledonian elected officers. “The people have spoken. The FLNKS is opposed to the unfreezing of the electoral body as defined in the draft constitutional law. This text must therefore be withdrawn by the French government”wrote the motion in a press launch.

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“If Macron withdraws the text, tomorrow, it’s all over”, proceed to say Nelson (who wished to stay nameless) and his comrades on the Montravel independence barrier, sun shades, balaclavas and hoods on their heads. During the evening from Wednesday to Thursday, the police intervened to raise their barricade which was stopping visitors on RT1, the highway which leads out of Nouméa, which rioters and activists had managed because the night of May 13, when New Caledonia went up in flames to protest towards the reform of the electoral physique. The roles have been reversed, it’s now the police and gendarmes who’ve management of the roundabout, from the place they monitor the doorway to the neighborhood utilizing binoculars.

“The thaw is the end of the Kanak people”

“We are ready to continue the mobilization, since the President of the Republic, apparently, does not hear us”, confirms Yamel, a revered fifty-year-old from Montravel. With the passage of time and the rising variety of difficulties every day on this neighborhood nearly lower off from the world, resentment has constructed up within the ranks of activists. Here, we guarantee that we aren’t on the origin of the fires and the looting and we refute the comparability with the riots that France skilled in 2023. For these younger individuals, the motion could be very political: “The thaw is the top of the Kanak individuals, already we’re a minority in numbers, we are going to by no means have our say once more if we let this occurthinks Nelson. And then we additionally do that for our previous individuals, who fought of their time. »

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