In New Caledonia, LFI seized the prisoners’ file | EUROtoday

In New Caledonia, LFI seized the prisoners’ file
 | EUROtoday
Christian Tein, head of the field coordination unit of field actions, at the first general meeting of the organization, in Bourail in New Caledonia, on June 14, 2024.

The topic was tackled of Houaïlou, an independence fief of the east coast of the Grande Terre, in Lifou within the Loyalty Islands, the place the 2 deputies of Insoumise France (LFI), Mathilde Panot (Val-de-Marne) and Bastien Lachaud (Seine-Saint-Denis), throughout their go to to New Caledonia, went to the Loyalty. weeks by the talk on the way forward for the archipelago, the file of independence activists in detention stays a serious difficulty on the bottom. “Sometimes it is even the first subject that was tackled during our meetings”explains Mathilde Panot. The president of the LFI group within the National Assembly concluded that“There is no possible peace without liberation from political prisoners”as considers the Kanak and Socialist Liberation Front (FLNKS).

The most emblematic circumstances, these of Christian Tein, chief of the sector coordination unit (CCAT), and 6 different independence activists, positioned in pre -trial detention on June 23, 2024 and instantly transferred to France, 17,000 km from their residence. Justice criticizes them for having ordered the violence of May-June 2024, which left 14 useless and two billion euros in harm, which they’ve all the time denied. “It is one of the blocking points that strike the population, which generate great suffering and prevent building a common destiny”believes Bastien Lachaud. The Parisian investigation judges now liable for the file started their hearings on May 13.

You have 69.59% of this text to learn. The relaxation is reserved for subscribers.

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/05/16/en-nouvelle-caledonie-lfi-se-saisit-du-dossier-des-prisonniers_6606440_823448.html