🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Chaos in New Caledonia: latest official developments

▪️ Emmanuel Macron noted «significant progress» in restoring order in New Caledonia and decided to deploy military personnel to protect public buildings.

▪️ Measures are being taken to ensure that tourists still on the archipelago can return home.

▪️Prime Minister Gabriel Attal emphasized the determination to restore order as a prerequisite for dialogue, acknowledging there is still work to be done.

▪️The bodies of two killed gendarmes arrived in Istres, with a tribute attended by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and others.

▪️29 arrests were made by gendarmerie and police, and 76 roadblocks were cleared between Nouméa and the airport.

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🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Around 400 businesses and shops damaged since riots began

👉🏻 Significant damage has been reported in Nouméa and nearby towns, affecting buildings, public facilities, and economic structures, according to Nouméa public prosecutor Yves Dupas. Specifically, around 400 establishments, including shops, hypermarkets, and businesses, have been destroyed or damaged, causing significant damage.

🔎 The New Caledonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry called for the preservation of "the little that remains" of the archipelago's economy, estimating that over 150 businesses have been looted and set on fire, leaving more than 1,000 employees out of work. There is now more than 1 billion euros worth of damage.

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🇫🇷📈 French business failures rising above 2009 peak

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🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Chaos in New Caledonia: latest official developments

▪️Emmanuel Macron is heading to New Caledonia to «establish a mission», according to government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot. Neither the duration nor the nature of his stay has been specified.

▪️Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced he will accompany the President to New Caledonia, along with the Minister of Overseas Territories and the Minister of the Armed Forces

▪️In response to the violence, additional forces will be sent in the coming hours despite a «fragile return to calm», according to local government representative.

▪️The Council of State has granted the government an extension to justify the blocking of TikTok, prolonging the review of appeals until Wednesday noon.

▪️A New Zealand flight arrived to evacuate fifty tourists. Canberra is sending two planes to evacuate Australian tourists and others.

▪️Nouméa International Airport remains closed to commercial flights until Saturday at 9 AM due to the ongoing blockades and violence.

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The political events of 1984 to 1988 in New Caledonia were a period in the history of this French collectivity that was marked by a quasi-civil and even ethnic war between supporters and opponents of independence from France.

Marked by several deaths on both sides, as well as the murder of a dozen gendarmes, the introduction of a state of emergency, a reinforced presence of French military forces and extensive national and international media coverage, it has profoundly marked the contemporary history of this Pacific Ocean archipelago.

Violence reached its peak with the Ouvéa hostage-taking incident in 1988. Civil peace was restored with the signing of the Matignon Accords on June 26, 1988.

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🇫🇷🇪🇺🇩🇪 Two weeks before European elections, the French far-right party has announced that it will no longer sit with its German ally, following controversial remarks made by the head of the AfD list about the SS.

🔎 In an interview on May 18, Maximilian Krah had referred to members of the SS, saying that not all of them should be “automatically considered as (criminals), there were also many farmers”.

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