Paris: State of emergency in New Caledonia to be lifted – vopbuzz
PARIS/SYDNEY: Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements New Caledonia, Elysee He also stated the following in his statement on Monday: state of emergency will end as planned French Pacific region local time on Tuesday morning.
The state of emergency will end at 20:00 on Monday evening in Paris (5:00 on Tuesday morning in Noumea).
Seven people were killed, hundreds arrested and scores of buildings and cars destroyed in the two-week uprising triggered by a controversial electoral reform and fueled by sharp economic disparities between indigenous Kanak people and people of European descent.
Police shot and killed a man on Friday evening, a day after French President Emmanuel. Macron He visited with the aim of reducing tension.
With the arrival of an additional 480 gendarmes, the number of French security forces in the Pacific region will increase to 3,500.
The statement stated that Macron’s decision not to renew the state of emergency shows Paris’s desire to start the process of de-escalation and re-establish the conditions for dialogue.
The main pro-independence political coalition FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) issued a statement on Saturday saying the priority was to reduce tensions and that the only viable solution was “a non-political and non-oppressive solution”.
In the statement made by France, it was stated that the purpose of lifting the state of emergency was to allow the FLNKS to gather.
Macron added that it “reminds us that the removal of the barricades is a necessary condition for the start of concrete and serious negotiations.”
“We continue to mobilize, we continue the resistance in our neighborhoods in a structured way,” Christian Tein of the Field Action Coordination Cell (CCAT), which organized roadblocks blocking movement and food and medicine supplies across the island, said in a statement on Friday. in an organized way”.
No statement was made regarding the night curfew imposed by local authorities in New Caledonia.
The operator of Noumea international airport announced that the airport will remain closed until June 2.
The state of emergency will end at 20:00 on Monday evening in Paris (5:00 on Tuesday morning in Noumea).
Seven people were killed, hundreds arrested and scores of buildings and cars destroyed in the two-week uprising triggered by a controversial electoral reform and fueled by sharp economic disparities between indigenous Kanak people and people of European descent.
Police shot and killed a man on Friday evening, a day after French President Emmanuel. Macron He visited with the aim of reducing tension.
With the arrival of an additional 480 gendarmes, the number of French security forces in the Pacific region will increase to 3,500.
The statement stated that Macron’s decision not to renew the state of emergency shows Paris’s desire to start the process of de-escalation and re-establish the conditions for dialogue.
The main pro-independence political coalition FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) issued a statement on Saturday saying the priority was to reduce tensions and that the only viable solution was “a non-political and non-oppressive solution”.
In the statement made by France, it was stated that the purpose of lifting the state of emergency was to allow the FLNKS to gather.
Macron added that it “reminds us that the removal of the barricades is a necessary condition for the start of concrete and serious negotiations.”
“We continue to mobilize, we continue the resistance in our neighborhoods in a structured way,” Christian Tein of the Field Action Coordination Cell (CCAT), which organized roadblocks blocking movement and food and medicine supplies across the island, said in a statement on Friday. in an organized way”.
No statement was made regarding the night curfew imposed by local authorities in New Caledonia.
The operator of Noumea international airport announced that the airport will remain closed until June 2.
