2,600 gendarmes and police officers on the ground in New Caledonia as the anniversary of 13 May 2024 approaches - L'Essor

2100 departmental and mobile gendarmes and 500 police officers, supported by some 20 armoured vehicles and drones, are already mobilized. A decree, which runs from Thursday, 8 May, to Thursday, 15 June, prohibits demonstrations. On 13 May 2024, in New Caledonia, violent riots caused by independants began. Originally, the constitutional revision project aimed at partially ending the freeze of the electoral corps authorized to vote in the provinci…