The Noumea Attorney General indicated on Thursday, September 12, that he had rejected the request to transfer the proceedings against officials from the field action coordination unit (CCAT), accused of being the instigators of the riots that affected New Caledonia. This request had been made by their lawyers, who feared the bias of the magistrates of the Noumea judicial court.
New milestone reached in the crisis shaking the New CaledoniaThe courts have finally rejected the request to transfer the proceedings against pro-independence activists accused, among other things, of orchestrating the riots on the island.
The request to refer this case to another jurisdiction was made by eight of the thirteen persons charged, five of whom are incarcerated in France hexagonal. All are members of the field action coordination cell (CCAT), accused of having orchestrated the riots.
The lawyers who filed the petition denounce ” the competition of political and judicial interests does not guarantee the conduct of a judicial investigation respecting the principles of independence and impartiality ” They aimed to ” numerous public statements by the public prosecutor to the effect that the CCAT would necessarily be “responsible” for the actions committed in New Caledonia in violation of the principle of the presumption of innocence ».
Accusations refuted by the prosecutor
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