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After the explosion of insurrectional violence of May 13, 2024, New Caledonia sank in a deep political and social disaster. A yr later, the State’s efforts to relaunch discussions on a standing of the territory in a position to convey stability and peace didn’t succeed. The demand for self -determination of the Kanak folks can be sturdy, however comes up in opposition to the strain of self -proclaimed “Supporters of France”.

The electrical physique widening generates the disaster

Monday May 13, 2024in Paris, the constitutional invoice increasing the electoral physique for native elections in New Caledonia, rejected by the separatists, arrives on the National Assembly. In Nouméa, the identical day, violence unprecedented by their magnitude explode. Nearly 200 fires are declared. Dozens of independence dams block the agglomeration which is devastated. A curfew comes into power.

The state of emergency is decreed by the President of the Republic, May 15, Reinforcements have been despatched from France. In Nouméa, a gendarme and three kanaks are killed, the primary dying of an rebel which is able to result in the dying of fourteen folks – eleven kanaks, a caldoche and two gendarmes, one in every of whom fell underneath a fratricidal shot.

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