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Around 200 people (185 according to the police) demonstrated Saturday in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) in support of Christian Tein, Kanak leader of the Cellule de coordination des actions de terrain (CCAT), imprisoned in the prison of this Alsatian city, noted an AFP correspondent on the scene. The activists of the Kanak Movement in France (MKF) gathered in a square in the city, before joining the sub-prefecture to demonstrate their support for the Kanak independence fighters, seven of whom are imprisoned in France. Among them, Christian Tein is currently detained in the Mulhouse-Lutterbach penitentiary center.
Carrying banners proclaiming “Free our innocents; deported and unjustly condemned” and “Colonization is a crime against humanity”, the activists remained gathered for about two hours before peacefully returning to the prison site, in front of which they demonstrated until around 5:00 p.m.
Seven activists placed in pre-trial detention in various prisons in France
Since the start of the unrest in New Caledonia linked to the constitutional reform on the thawing of the electoral body, criticized by Kanak separatists, 1,520 people have been arrested, according to the High Commission of the Republic in the archipelago. 11 separatist activists were arrested on June 19. Among them, nine were placed in pretrial detention, including seven in various prisons in mainland France.
The violence, the most serious to have occurred in the archipelago since the 1980s, left nine dead, according to the authorities’ latest report, and considerable material damage (fires, destruction, looting, etc.). A renewed tension occurred after the transfer to mainland France at the end of last week of independence activists. Gatherings are also prohibited in New Caledonia from Saturday morning to Sunday evening and the curfew, in force since the start of high tensions, has been extended until July 8, the High Commission of the Republic announced on Friday. .
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