New Caledonia: new outbreak of violence

In New Caledonia, night has fallen, but not the anger. Tense face-to-face encounters all day long and clashes between the police and the rioters. The police are trying to regain lost ground. Several public buildings were targeted. Like a municipal police station. “We come back as at the beginning to know that we live day by day. I don’t know what’s going on with the protesters.”laments a resident of the island.

At the heart of the anger, the transfer to France of several activists pursued by the courts, including a pro-independence figure accused by the authorities of having encouraged the riots last month. He is now incarcerated in Mulhouse, more than 17,000 km from New Caledonia. Since Saturday, incidents have started again almost everywhere in the territory, including far from Nouméa.