Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements in New Caledonia, the Elysée said in a statement, also indicating a state of emergency would end as planned in the French Pacific territory on Tuesday morning local time.
The state of emergency would end on Monday evening at 8:00pm in Paris .
Seven people have been killed, hundreds arrested, and large numbers of buildings and cars destroyed in a fortnight of upheaval triggered by a contested electoral reform and fuelled by sharp economic disparities between the indigenous Kanak population and people of European background.
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