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At the doorway to the Ducos industrial zone, in Nouméa, solely a small cross planted in an embankment indicators the place of the drama. Just a yr in the past, on the third day of violence linked to mobilization in opposition to the reform of the electoral physique, two younger Kanaks misplaced their lives, killed by an armed civilian. Christian Neregote was 36 years previous, his cousin Stéphanie Nasaie Doouka, known as “Nana”, 17 years previous. The teenager is the one minor and the one girl among the many 14 victims of the 5 months of riots counted by the authorities.

However, on this commemoration day, they’re barely twenty to have made the journey to put a couple of flowers on the foot of the modest memorial. Apart from the close by household and a small independence delegation, nobody to maneuver from the demise of an adolescent. “We nonetheless have our throat knotted by what occurred. We did not assume we might kill our youngsters like wild beasts “protests Jacky Hnaja, one of the grandfathers in Nasaie.

The circumstances of the girl’s death are indeed overwhelming. It is 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, when Nasaie crosses the road to join his Christian uncle Neregote which is on board a 4 × 4, arrested in the middle of the roadway. Two days after the uprising which degenerated into a riot, several companies have already burned in the Ducos district, dams are erected by independence activists, others by residents wishing to protect their goods.

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