New Caledonia state of emergency to be lifted, says Paris
Paris, France/Sydney, Australia Reuters Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements in New Caledonia, the Elysée said in a statement on Monday, also indicating a state of emergency would end as planned in the French Pacific territory on Tuesday morning local time. The state of emergency would end on Monday evening at […]
New Caledonia protesters, police spar ahead of Macron visit
Reuters Protesters and a thousand French police reinforcements were playing a “game of cat and mouse” in New Caledonia, an independence group said on Wednesday, ahead of the arrival of France’s President Emmanuel Macron after the worst riots in 40 years. Macron is due to land in the French overseas territory in the Pacific on […]
France mobilises police to regain control of New Caledonia airport road
Paris, France Reuters French police trying to restore order in the island territory of New Caledonia after days of deadly unrest have cleared dozens of barricades that had been blocking the main road linking the airport to the capital, Noumea, a senior official said on Sunday. Around 60 barricades that protesters had put up along […]
Australians stranded in New Caledonia “running out of food” amid civil unrest
Sydney, Australia/Paris, France Reuters Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from Sydney said on Saturday. They are among 3,200 people who are stuck waiting to leave or enter the French-ruled territory as […]
Hundreds more French police start deploying to secure New Caledonia
Sydney, Australia/Paris, France Reuters French police reinforcements began arriving in New Caledonia on Friday in a massive push to regain control of the capital, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said, after rioting in which four people were killed and hundreds arrested. After three nights of upheaval, Thursday night was relatively quiet […]
France sends more police to New Caledonia to try to restore calm
Sydney, Australia/Paris, France Reuters The French Government sent more police to the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Thursday and said it would crack down on rioters, hoping to restore order after three nights of upheaval in which four people have been killed. Rioters angry with an electoral reform have burnt businesses, torched cars, looted […]
Four dead in New Caledonia riots, France declares state of emergency
Sydney, Australia/Paris, France Reuters France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Wednesday after three young Indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform. The state of emergency, which entered into force at 5am local time, gives authorities additional powers to ban gatherings and […]
Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbed
Dublin, Ireland Reuters Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related. Public transport was suspended and patients advised not to travel to a […]
In French banlieues, distrust of police runs deep
Paris, France Reuters Sports teacher Benjamin Belaidi held a banner reading “no justice, no peace” as he marched in memory of the teenager shot dead by French police, weary of what he described as repressive policing and an absent state in city suburbs. The 38-year-old Belaidi, who grew up in one of the low-income housing […]
France riots: mayors hold defiant rallies amid uneasy calm
Paris, France Reuters Defiant gatherings were held outside town halls across France on Monday following a wave of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of north African descent. Police made fewer than 160 arrests overnight, offering some relief for President Emmanuel Macron in his fight to reimpose order, just months after […]