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Hundreds of French police deployed to secure New Caledonia
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2024-05-17 | 00:54
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Hundreds of French police deployed to secure New Caledonia
French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said on Friday.
The number of police and gendarmes on the French-ruled island will rise to 2,700 from 1,700 by Friday evening.
After rioting that began on Monday resulting in four deaths and hundreds of arrests, Thursday night was relatively calm, France's High Commissioner Louis Le Franc told reporters in a televised press conference.
There were still points of confrontation and concern in the city of Noumea, he said.
Operations to supply food and medicine to the public will begin with teams, including specialists in mine clearing, removing road barricades that have been booby trapped by activists, he said.
"Reinforcements will arrive massively, immediately (and will be) deployed to control the areas which have escaped our control in recent days... to reconquer all the areas of the urban area which we have lost," he said.
Rioters angry with an electoral reform have burnt businesses, torched cars, looted shops, and set up road barricades over three days, cutting off access to medicine and food, authorities said.
"Our calls for calm, peace, and reconciliation are beginning to be heard... It is important that those who are at the origin of the clashes, of the blockages, hear this," Le Franc said.
The New Caledonia government said in a statement on Friday that the island has stocks of food for two months and the problem is distribution.
France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Thursday police had arrested the person responsible for shooting two Kanaks; Le Franc said one perpetrator had surrendered and investigations were continuing into other murders.
The Pacific Conference of Churches on Friday joined regional inter-governmental groups in calling for France to withdraw the constitutional bill and said the United Nations should lead a dialogue mission to New Caledonia.
In a statement, the churches said there had been a breakdown in dialogue between the French government and Kanak people.
Pacific Elders Voice, a group of former Pacific leaders, said on Friday decisions were being made in Paris without meaningful consultation and France should listen to "indigenous Kanak voices and the Pacific-wide support for self-determination."
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