‘Intolerable’: State of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest spreads
Al JazeeraFrance is sending 1,000 additional security personnel to join 1,700 on the ground in bid to tackle situation. France has declared a state of emergency in its Pacific Islands territory of New Caledonia and deployed police and military reinforcements in an attempt to end days of unrest over Paris’s move to change the rules on provincial elections. On Thursday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said that France would send about 1,000 “additional security personnel” to join the 1700 staff already on the ground. The office of the high commissioner, which represents the French state in New Caledonia, said in a statement that five people had been placed under house arrest as “alleged sponsors of the violent disturbances” and that more searches would take place “in the coming hours”. The authorities are “determined to quickly restore public order and take all necessary measures to protect the population of New Caledonia,” the statement said.
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