During a tour of police headquarters in the capital Nouméa on Thursday, he stated that the coming days and weeks would be challenging, but Paris will “go until the end” to restore order.
Six people have died in riots, looting, and arson caused by a controversial electoral reform, including two police officers, and hundreds more have been injured.
are afraid
New Caledonia, a series of islands between Australia and Fiji, has been a French territory since the nineteenth century. Tensions have been high for some time between the central authority in Paris and the indigenous Kanaks, who make up around 40% of the tiny archipelago.
Kanak protesters fear.
