presó preventiva per a un dels dirigents independentistes canacs

El dirigent independentista canac Christian Téin ha estat encausat per haver instigat les protestes i aldarulls d’ara fa un mes a Nova Caledònia arran de la reforma del cens electoral promoguda per l’estat francès. La revolta va deixar nou morts pel cap baix i va forçar el president francès, Emmanuel Macron, a suspendre la reform

Téin, dirigent de l’anomenada Cèl·lula de Coordinació d’Accions sobre el Terreny (CCAT), ha estat tancat en presó preventiva després d’haver comparegut davant un tribunal de la capital, Nouméa. També han passat a disposició judicial deu detinguts més per suposadament haver instigat les protestes.

Concretament, Téin és encausat per associació delictiva, participació en un grup format amb vista a cometre dany o violència intencional; robatori organitzat, destrucció de béns i complicitat per instigació o provisió de mitjans en els delictes d’assassinat o temptativa d’assassinat de policies.

Les protestes van començar el 13 de maig, després del debat al parlament francès sobre la reforma del cens que concedia el vot als ciutadans francesos. El text, que va ser aprovat per l’assemblea, proposava el dret de vot per als ciutadans francesos que fes almenys deu anys que visquessin a Nova Caledònia.

Els canacs, i especialment l’aliança independentista del Front d’Alliberament Nacional Canac i Socialista (FLNKS), van denunciar que la reforma pretenia decantar el pes electoral a favor dels ciutadans d’origen francès, majoritàriament unionistes.



Copyright Ludovic Marin/AP
By Daniel Bellamy with AP
Published on 22/06/2024 - euronews
 

Christian Tein is the leader of a pro-independence group that French officials allege played a leading role in weeks of violence that erupted in May.

Tein appeared in court in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa, along with ten other people who were arrested on Wednesday in the troubled French Pacific territory.

Local media reported that the eleven appeared before the public prosecutor Yves Dupas on Saturday morning.

Dupas opened a judicial investigation and ordered Tein to be placed in pre-trial detention in mainland France, which is about 16,800 kilometres away from New Caledonia.

Thein is the leader of the Field Action Coordination Cell or CCAT, which is a pro-independence movement, that has called for an end to France ruling over New Caledonia.

The eleven are suspected of having a role in the deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where Indigenous Kanak people have long sought to break free from France.

The detentions were part of an ongoing police investigation launched on May 17th, just days after unrest first erupted, into a wave of armed clashes, looting, blazes and other violence that turned parts of Nouméa and its suburbs into no-go zones.

The revolt prompted France to declare a state of emergency on the archipelago and rush in reinforcements for police forces that were rapidly overwhelmed. The violence led to nine deaths, including two gendarmes, and widespread destruction of shops, businesses and homes.

Last week the prosecutor said the detentions were part of a police investigation into a broad array of suspected crimes, including complicity in homicide and attempted homicide, armed robbery, arson, and membership of a group created to prepare violent acts.

With France now plunged into frenzied campaigning for snap parliamentary elections, French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended the reforms that would have altered voting rights in New Caledonia.