Unrest in New Caledonia continues as French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Pacific island amid rising tensions. Protesters continue to block several roads, while riot police and military vehicles patrol the streets of the capital, Nouméa.
At least six people have been killed and hundreds wounded after violence erupted across New Caledonia, referred to as Kanaky by the Indigenous Kanak population, following Macron’s attempts to tighten French colonial rule over the archipelago.
While in New Caledonia, Macron pushed for removing protesters’ barricades, saying that the approximately 3,000 French security forces deployed “will remain as long as necessary, even during the Olympic and Paralympic Games” in Paris, which end at the beginning of September. He added that the state of emergency could only be lifted if local leaders called for removing the barricades that protesters erected in Nouméa and elsewhere.
Pro-independence leaders, who a week earlier declined Macron’s offer to hold talks via video call, now joined an in-person meeting with him in Nouméa. Rival pro-France leaders, who want the archipelago to remain part of France, also attended the talk.
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