French President Macron heads to riot-hit New Caledonia as Australia, NZ evacuate tourists

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Pacific island of New Caledonia late on Tuesday, his office said, just over a week after riots erupted in the French overseas territory, killing six.left a trail of destruction with looted shops, torched cars and road barricades restricting access to medicine and food.

Macron “will discuss with all the forces in New Caledonia”, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said. “The objective is to ... prepare and anticipate reconstruction.”France’s President Emmanuel Macron, 2nd right, chairs a security and defence council at the Elysee Palace in Paris.Initial reaction showed renewing dialogue will not be an easy task, all the more so as pro-independence leaders blame the riots on Macron pushing through the electoral reform despite local opposition.

The opposition in Paris, former French prime ministers, and leaders of other Pacific islands have also said Macron should scrap or suspend the electoral reform, which parliament in Paris adopted last Tuesday. As she arrived in Brisbane, Australian tourist Mary Hatten said she had been largely confined to her hotel. “The place was just in a mess,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“My wife is quite upset, we just want to get home,” he said in a telephone interview. “We opened our hotel door this morning and you could just see an enormous billow of smoke coming off a building in the distance.”

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