A man died in Kaala-Gomen, we learned on Saturday May 18 New Caledonia The 1st with the gendarmerie. The victim is a father. He tried to pass the roadblock for the first time with his son, but was refused. There were exchanges of fire during his second attempt. The death toll thus rises to six deaths since the start of the riots on Monday. Two people were also injured and transferred to the emergency room of the Nord hospital center, reports La 1ère. Follow our live stream.
Local government calls for “reason”. New Caledonia is committed “on a destructive path”deplored the government of the French archipelago on Saturday. “People are already dying, not because of armed conflicts, but because they have no access to healthcare, no access to food”, was moved by the local Minister of Public Service, Vaimu’a Muliava. He called “to reason” while since Monday, New Caledonia has been the scene of nightly riots which led to the death of six people, after the uprising of separatists against an electoral reform voted in Paris.
More than 3,000 people stranded due to lack of flights. The government of New Caledonia has identified 3,200 people stranded due to the absence of commercial flights from and to the archipelago, it announced on Saturday. The resumption of traffic is at this stage scheduled for Tuesday by Aircalin, but this date is very uncertain, because it is subject to changes in security conditions. Air Calédonie, for its part, no longer offers flights “until further notice”.
A request for a dialogue mission and a postponement of the Congress. The majority of parliamentary groups agreed to request the creation of a dialogue mission, according to several parliamentary sources to franceinfo, Friday May 17. The majority of groups also agreed on a postponement of the Congress which should lead to the adoption of the constitutional reform, at the heart of the tensions, following a meeting bringing together Gabriel Attal as well as the presidents of the two chambers of Parliament and parliamentary groups.