In the gang heading on foot in the direction of the frequent home which is internet hosting the congress of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), we will barely make out Christian Tein. The president of the independence motion waits quietly beneath a tree within the firm of his brother, whereas the delegations enter one after the other, carrying beneath their arms the materials, yams and different foodstuffs meant for the customized of good day.
An activist who moved from the shadows to the sunshine through the protest towards electoral reform which degenerated into riots in May 2024, Christian Tein now embodies the wrestle of the Kanak folks in France and overseas. In the archipelago, his arrest in June 2024 and his subsequent placement in pre-trial detention in Mulhouse, 17,000 km from residence, have definitively divided minds: “terrorist” for the exhausting line of non-independenceists, he’s a “political prisoner” sufferer “colonial repression” for his supporters, who propelled him to the presidency of the motion on the finish of August 2024, whereas he was in solitary confinement.
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