Independentist Christian Tein stays in detention in France, after the rejection of his attraction in cassation | EUROtoday

The Court of Cassation rejected Tuesday, April 8, the attraction of Christian Tein, a determine of the Kanak independence motion, who challenged his pre-trial detention in mainland France, discovered the company (AFP) of judicial supply.

Incarcerated on the Mulhouse-Lutterbach penitentiary middle (Haut-Rhin) since June 2024, Christian Tein has been indicted for seven chiefs, together with complicity in tried homicide, flight in a gang organized with weapon and participation in an affiliation of criminals.

In October 2024, the Court of Cassation had canceled a primary detention funding determination. But the Noumea Court of Appeal had confirmed this measure a month later, after new debates. Three judgments rendered by this court docket – specifically on the looks by videoconference of Christian Tein and the holding of the debates behind closed doorways – had then been disputed.

The CCAT accused of being the reason for riots

During the listening to earlier than the legal chamber of the Court of Cassation on Tuesday, April 8, the Advocate General advisable the rejection of the attraction, believing that the usage of videoconference was justified by a critical threat of public order problems, and that the process had not affected the rights of the protection.

Christian Tein, arrested on June 19, 2024, had been positioned in pre -trial detention and instantly transferred to France on June 23, with six different activists from the sphere coordination cell (CCAT). This group is accused by the federal government of being behind the riots which then ravaged New Caledonia, and which left a complete of fourteen lifeless and greater than 2 billion euros in harm.

Christian Tein, elected in August president of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), has all the time denied having referred to as to commit violence and presents himself as a “Political prisoner”.