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The three investigations came two days after clashes between police and rioters during an operation to clear a provincial road in the eastern part of the region.
A 43-year-old man was shot dead by police and another was seriously wounded as violence on the French Pacific archipelago left 11 people dead, with the archipelago still deadlocked after three months of unrest.
During the operation, a “mobile gendarmerie squadron” was “violently attacked, with stones, Molotov cocktails and gunfire thrown at them” and suffered “retaliations” as it cleared the axis, Noumea prosecutor Yves Dupas detailed in a press release issued Thursday.
A 57-year-old man “identified by the gendarmerie as the perpetrator of stone-throwing” will be tried for “intentional violence against persons of public authority” and “taking part in a rally with weapons (stones)”, prosecutors said on Saturday.
The same source noted that the defendant, who will go on trial on Monday, has been detained in pretrial custody and has disputed “his involvement in the alleged acts.”
The prosecutor announced on Thursday that it had “taken over the investigation of the use of weapons by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN)” by the mobile gendarmes, in particular “the qualification of intentional violence causing death in cases of non-intentional violence”, but had already given up on it.
In addition, the vital signs of a person hit by “retaliatory fire from the mobile gendarmes” are still pending, and a mobile gendarme was hit in the face by a thrown stone and suffered “serious maxillofacial trauma” accompanied by complete incapacity for one week, the prosecutor added.
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