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Gendarmes supervise protests in downtown Nouméa, as pro-independence and non-independence activists clash over expanding the electorate for New Caledonia's upcoming provincial elections on April 13, 2024.

“Violent, sometimes fatal repression”, “serious questions about the expected impartiality of justice” and “collective retaliation measures” : the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) has simply issued a harsh opinion on the rebel disaster which hit New Caledonia in 2024.

“What emerges from the hearings is a generalized denial as to the seriousness of the events which took place last year in New Caledonia”worries Pierre Tartakowsky. The honorary president of the Human Rights League, member of the CNCDH, is the co-rapporteur of the opinion on violations of basic rights adopted Thursday January 29 by the CNCDH and which highlights quite a few dysfunctions within the administration of the disaster which affected the archipelago.

The topic is extraordinarily delicate. Jean-Baptiste Burguburu, lawyer, former president of the Paris bar and president of the CNCDH, a company whose members are appointed by the Prime Minister, want to make clear: “At no time is it a query of including gas to the fireplace, however of declaring instances the place violence was illegitimate. » Proof, in response to him, of each consideration and the will for impartiality, it’s the two vice-presidents of the establishment, Renée Koering-Joulin, honorary advisor to the Court of Cassation for the faculty of certified individuals, and Pierre Tartakowsky for the faculty of civil society, who had been appointed co-rapporteurs. “We are due to this fact removed from being the damaging leftists that some want to characterize us as. »

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