two years after the riots, the injuries are nonetheless open | EUROtoday

Three weeks earlier than the examination within the Senate, Tuesday February 24, of a constitutional invoice on the standing of New Caledonia which is being debated, the ambiance is surprisingly calm within the streets of Nouméa. Neither demonstration nor banner towards this textual content which notably offers for the thawing of the electoral physique, mom of all battles for the independence camp and whose makes an attempt to change are on the origin of a few of the most violent episodes within the historical past of Caillou.

Two years in the past, on the identical time, tens of hundreds of separatists marched within the streets to say no to the thaw, whereas non-separatists shouted their assist for the reform initiated by the then Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin: “If the State trembles, we will make the mess”launched loyalist chief Sonia Backès, perched on the platform of a truck, in entrance of hundreds of supporters.

An excessive divide which led, on May 13, 2024, the day the textual content was examined within the National Assembly, to an explosion of violence which left 15 lifeless and billions of euros in injury. Violence attributed by the Loyalists to the cell for coordinating subject actions, the CCAT, created by the separatists of the Caledonian Union to arrange the mobilization towards the textual content. The separatists denounce the “forceful passage of the State” and the evident social injustices, accountable, based on them, for this violent riot of a part of the Kanak youth. To date, justice has not determined duties.

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