🇫🇷📈 French business failures rising above 2009 peak

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🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Chaos in New Caledonia: latest official developments

▪️Emmanuel Macron is heading to New Caledonia to «establish a mission», according to government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot. Neither the duration nor the nature of his stay has been specified.

▪️Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced he will accompany the President to New Caledonia, along with the Minister of Overseas Territories and the Minister of the Armed Forces

▪️In response to the violence, additional forces will be sent in the coming hours despite a «fragile return to calm», according to local government representative.

▪️The Council of State has granted the government an extension to justify the blocking of TikTok, prolonging the review of appeals until Wednesday noon.

▪️A New Zealand flight arrived to evacuate fifty tourists. Canberra is sending two planes to evacuate Australian tourists and others.

▪️Nouméa International Airport remains closed to commercial flights until Saturday at 9 AM due to the ongoing blockades and violence.

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The political events of 1984 to 1988 in New Caledonia were a period in the history of this French collectivity that was marked by a quasi-civil and even ethnic war between supporters and opponents of independence from France.

Marked by several deaths on both sides, as well as the murder of a dozen gendarmes, the introduction of a state of emergency, a reinforced presence of French military forces and extensive national and international media coverage, it has profoundly marked the contemporary history of this Pacific Ocean archipelago.

Violence reached its peak with the Ouvéa hostage-taking incident in 1988. Civil peace was restored with the signing of the Matignon Accords on June 26, 1988.

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🇫🇷🇪🇺🇩🇪 Two weeks before European elections, the French far-right party has announced that it will no longer sit with its German ally, following controversial remarks made by the head of the AfD list about the SS.

🔎 In an interview on May 18, Maximilian Krah had referred to members of the SS, saying that not all of them should be “automatically considered as (criminals), there were also many farmers”.

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🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Chaos in New Caledonia: "colossal" damage inflicted on local businesses

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🇫🇷🔥🇳🇨 Attacked by a group of 15 individuals, a policeman opened fire and killed a 48yo man. Seven people have died in New Caledonia since the riots began, including two gendarmes.

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🇫🇷🇮🇱 French-Mexican Hamas hostage Orión Hernández-Radoux is dead: His body was recovered during the night by the Israeli army, along with those of two other hostages.

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🇫🇷❌🌐 TikTok Block in New Caledonia Raises Legal Concerns in France

👉🏻 The blocking of TikTok in New Caledonia marks a first in France and Europe, raising concerns about state authority in a rule of law. TikTok has been inaccessible for over a week due to a government decision, accusing the platform of contributing to public disorder.

🔎 On May 23, the Council of State rejected a suspension request from several public liberties associations, including the Ligue des droits de l’homme and La Quadrature du Net. This legal victory for the government leaves several fundamental questions unresolved.

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