{"id":11991,"date":"2024-05-16T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:00:29","slug":"hundreds-arrested-roads-barricaded-in-new-caledonia-as-riots-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11991","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds arrested, roads barricaded in New Caledonia as riots continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hundreds-arrested-roads-barricaded-in-new-caledonia-as-riots-continue.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Armed forces were protecting New Caledonia\u2019s two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four people, the Pacific Island\u2019s top French official said on Thursday morning, adding at least four alleged instigators were under house arrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1508165287\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1265900439\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-2658904490538-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In three municipalities on the French-ruled island, gendarmes faced about 5,000 rioters, including between 3,000 and 4,000 in the capital Noumea, France\u2019s High Commissioner Louis Le Franc said in a televised press conference.<br \/>\nTwo hundred people have been arrested, and 64 gendarmes and police injured, while road barricades put up by the protesters were causing a \u201cdire situation\u201d for medicine and food for the population, he added.<br \/>\nFrance declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia that came in force at 5 a.m. local time (1800 GMT Wednesday), giving authorities additional powers to ban gatherings and forbid people from moving around the island.<br \/>\nPolice reinforcements adding 500 officers to the 1,800 usually present on the island, have been sent after rioters torched vehicles and businesses and looted stores.<br \/>\nNoumea resident Yoan Fleurot told Reuters in a Zoom interview that he has seen looting and destruction of properties. Some storeowners willingly let their shelves be raided, pleading that their shops not be destroyed, he said.<br \/>\nFleurot said he is armed with a 16-caliber gun and has video surveillance installed around his house, adding he has only ventured out in daylight to check on his parents or his properties.<br \/>\nThe roadblocks were difficult to pass through, and he been subjected to insults and threats of violence, he said.<br \/>\n\u201cI am New Caledonian, but I no longer know my country anymore,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cCaledonia will have a hard time recovering from this crisis\u2026 Everything, 80%, is destroyed,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nMain and secondary roads in Noumea were blocked by barricades with burning cars and car carcasses, some with booby traps with gas bottles and ignition systems, French official Le Franc said.<br \/>\n\u201cI am calling on those at the head of the CCAT to stop these actions, which are murderous, deadly actions that can leave families in mourning,\u201d he said, referring to the Field Action Co-ordination Cell (CCAT), which organised the protests that began on Monday.<br \/>\nHe said CCAT was \u201can organisation of thugs which engages in acts of violence\u201d, and differentiated it from the main pro-independence party, FLNKS, and other pro-independence political groups.<br \/>\nFLNKS has condemned the violence and called for dialogue to resolve the situation.<br \/>\nThere were also confrontations overnight between active members of CCAT and self-defence groups or militias which were formed to protect themselves, he said, adding the militia are also in breach of the curfew and the ban on carrying weapons.<br \/>\nRioting broke out over a new bill, adopted by lawmakers in Paris on Tuesday, that will let French residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years vote in provincial elections \u2013 a move some local leaders fear will dilute the indigenous Kanak vote.<br \/>\nThree young Kanak have died in the riots, and a 24-year-old police official died from a gunshot wound.<br \/>\nA state of emergency will last for 12 days and authorities have also banned video app TikTok.<br \/>\nElectoral reform is the latest flashpoint in a decades-long tussle over France\u2019s role in the mineral-rich island, which lies in the southwest Pacific, some 1,500 km (930 miles) east of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: Armed forces were protecting New Caledonia&#8217;s two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four 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