On June 3, 2024, when dozens of dams hindered the highway, six gendarmes resolve, with out informing their hierarchy, to journey the 40 kilometers that separate them from their project, on the Tontouta airport, to go to lunch on the bays of Nouméa, a vacationer excessive place of the capital, regardless of the insurrectional disaster that has been hitting New Caledonia for 2 weeks. The getaway, aboard two automobiles rented by them, will finish with 13 photographs fired with out summons after a chase, adopted by an change of photographs, and by two injured on the independence facet, together with Lionel Païta, 26, who died 4 days later, June 7.
At the time, the general public prosecutor of Nouméa, Yves Dupas, talks about “Context of ambush towards the police” and “Several men” who would have “Open fire”,, “Building a response action”. A model undermined by the hearings of gendarmes and witnesses, unveiled on April 15 throughout a listening to on the Noumea Criminal Court. Because the file was sausage. The deadly photographs are the topic of an investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN), however Elie Païta, 23, was tried for “violence with use or threat of a weapon without incapacity”. What is criticized for this cousin of Lionel Païta? Having voluntarily, behind the wheel of a pick-up, struck one of many autos rented by the gendarmes. Facts that the younger man denies, explaining on the helm to have “Just wanted to block the car”whereas he “I didn’t know that they were police forces.”
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