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Hundreds injured in another night of protests in New Caledonia
Hundreds of people were injured in the protests in New Caledonia, including a hundred police officers, the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories, Gérald Darmanin, announced today, after another night of riots in the archipelago.
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The circumstances in which a person died after being shot during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday remain unclear, the minister added, speaking to RTL radio.
He said dozens of "homes and businesses" were torched in New Caledonia in protests against a constitutional review being debated in the French parliament and opposed by the French Pacific territory's separatists.
On Tuesday, the New Caledonian government called for "reason and calm" after rioters rampaged through the capital on Monday.
The unrest prompted the French state representative in the archipelago to impose a daytime curfew on Tuesday, as well as banning all gatherings, carrying of weapons and the sale of alcohol.
Authorities also closed secondary schools and universities. The international airport was also shut and the Aircalin, the New Caledonian flag carrier, cancelled all flights scheduled for Tuesday.
The unrest erupted Monday on the sidelines of a pro-independence rally against a constitutional amendment that seeks to broaden the electorate for provincial elections.
France's current constitution limits the electorate to those who were on the rolls for a 1998 self-determination referendum and their descendants, excluding around one in five potential voters, including those who arrived after 1998 and many indigenous New Caledonians.
French Interior and Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin, who proposed the amendment, has said the provision "is no longer in line with the principles of democracy" and "leads to absurdities".
Separatists in New Caledonia, an archipelago of 270,000 people, have denounced the reform as an attempt to further "marginalise the indigenous Kanak people", who made up 41.2 percent of the island's population in 2019.
Read Also: New Caledonia government calls for calm after violent riots (Portuguese version)
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