New fires overnight in Nouméa
While Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia – his plane is due to arrive Wednesday evening or Thursday morning (local time) – two schools and a car dealership were set on fire overnight. According to the municipality of Nouméa, interviewed by Agence France-Presse (AFP), 300 vehicles from the dealership went up in smoke.
However, according to a press release from the High Commission of the Republic, the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in the archipelago “was calmer than the previous one despite two fires in the Nouméa metropolitan area”. On Wednesday morning, fires were visible in several sectors of the Nouméa metropolitan area, including the Ducos industrial zone, AFP noted.
He is “much too early” to make an overall assessment of the damage, because there are still neighborhoods where the agents do not go, the administration of the city of Nouméa explained to AFP, while the high commission declared in its press release that “more than 90 dams [avaient] already been neutralized and [étaient] gradually cleaned ».