Christian Tein will stay in detention till a choice on attraction on June 12, on his launch | EUROtoday

The independence chief Kanak Christian Tein is stored in detention till June 12, the date of a listening to on the backside on the Court of Appeal on his launch ordered by investigating judges however disputed by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, realized the France-Presse company from a judicial supply, Thursday, June 5.

The three instructing magistrates who examine Paris on the 2024 lethal riots in New Caledonia on Tuesday, the discharge of Mr. Tein on Tuesday, however the prosecution requested a detention, forcing the activist to stay imprisoned at this stage on the Penitentiary Center of Mulhouse-Lutterbach (Haut-Rhin).

On Thursday, a Justice of the Peace of the Court of Appeal was as a result of rule emergency on this procedure-detention, to search out out if by the listening to on the backside scheduled for June 12, Mr. Tein was to be launched or stored in detention. “The magistrate ordered the suspension of the effects of the order [de remise en liberté]. Christian Tein remains detained to the hearing of the investigating chamber which will be held on June 12 »said the judicial source.

Three other separatists in the same case

That day, this room will study at the bottom the call formed by the prosecution against its release. According to the same source, a similar decision to keep in detention was made Thursday concerning three other separatists held in France, Dimitri Qenegei, Guillaume Vama and Erwan Waetheane, who had benefited from the same enlargement by the investigating judges and had been the subject of the same opposition by the prosecution. Their case will also be studied on June 12.

Christian Tein, elected in August 2024 President of the Kanak National Liberation Front and Socialist (FLNKS), has always denied having called to commit violence and presents himself as a “Political prisoner”.

He is the head of the field coordination unit of field actions (CCAT), an organization that justice suspects being behind the riots that broke out on May 13, 2024 in New Caledonia, killing 14, including two gendarmes, and more than two billion euros in damage.