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Riots in New Caledonia: “Things got definitively worse the day after the 3rd referendum,” says a sociology professor
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, professor of sociology and anthropology at Paris 8 University, is on the set of 19/20 info, Thursday May 16, to shed light on the explosive situation in New Caledonia.
(franceinfo)
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, professor of sociology and anthropology at Paris 8 University, is on the set of 19/20 info, Thursday May 16, to shed light on the explosive situation in New Caledonia.
New Caledonia is still hit by urban violence on Thursday May 16. Between the loyalists and the separatists, the dialogue is broken. Can he resume? “We must admit that things have definitely deteriorated following the third referendum” in December 2021, estimates Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Paris 8, on the set of 19/20 info.
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas emphasizes that New Caledonia is a former French colony. “When the separatists asked for the third referendum to be postponed for reasons of mourning and the Covid crisis, the Council of State, which was seized of a freedom summary, completely followed the line of the Ministry of Interior, refused to hear the arguments And therefore, the referendum took place in conditions where we knew that the separatists could not call for a vote.notes the sociology professor. “So that is the origin of the current crisis”she says.
