Kanak Pro-Independence Leader Allowed to Return to New Caledonia, Court Rules

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Currently under judicial control in the Upper Rhine, Kanak independent leader Christian Tein is now able to travel to New Caledonia. The activist is under investigation in the investigation into the deadly riots of May 2024.

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Mr. Tein, 57 years old, will remain in metropolitan France for the time being and will eventually decide to return to New Caledonia after the expiry of the appeal period for the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday.

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Incarcerated 16,000 kilometres from his archipelago for a year and then released under judicial supervision with an obligation to remain in Hexagon, the president of FLNKS was allowed to return to New Caledonia, it was learned this Wednesday, 1 October.

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The head of the Field Action Coordination Cell (CCAT), Christian Tein, at a press conference in Montpellier on 18 June 2025. GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP The Parisian justice authorities authorized the independent leader Kanak Christian Tein, who had been charged in the investigation into the deadly riots of May 2024, to return to New Caledonia, to learn of the French-Press Agency (AFP) from a source close to the case on Wednesday, 1 October. According t…

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Paris, 1 Oct 2025 (AFP) – Parisian justice has allowed Kanak independent leader Christian Tein, charged in the investigation into the deadly riots of May 2024, to return to New Caledonia, learned the AFP from a source close to the file on Wednesday. According to this source, confirming information from the NC channel The 1st, this [...]