Kanak independence chief Christian Tein will stay incarcerated in mainland France | EUROtoday

The New Caledonian independence activist Christian Tein, incarcerated in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), will stay detained in France, the Nouméa Court of Appeal selected Friday, November 29, after the invalidation in October of his placement in detention pronounced in first occasion, in response to his lawyer Pierre Ortet, to Agence France-Presse.

“We are going to appeal to the Court of Cassation and it is obvious that we will go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, in particular on the conditions of the transfer. We continue, we don’t give up”commented François Roux, one other lawyer for Mr. Tein.

On October 22, the Court of Cassation invalidated Mr. Tein’s detention, ordering that this resolution be re-examined by an attraction courtroom. The courtroom acknowledged a “breach of confidentiality” exchanges between attorneys and their purchasers, videoconference interviews might be recorded. Another independence activist, Steve Unë, benefited from the identical resolution.

Indicted on seven counts

Both are members of the sphere motion coordination cell (CCAT), a company accused by the federal government of being behind the riots which have ravaged New Caledonia since May, inflicting 13 deaths and injury estimated at greater than 2 billion euros.

Mr. Tein is indicted for seven counts, together with complicity in tried homicide, organized gang theft with a weapon, participation in a felony affiliation with a view to making ready against the law.

Arrested on June 19, he was positioned in pre-trial detention and instantly transferred to France on June 23 with six different activists, aboard a specifically chartered aircraft. Mr. Tein has at all times denied calling for violence.