French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly violence following protests from the indigenous Kanak population who have long sought independence from Paris.
Speaking this Tuesday, government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot announced, "[Macron] will go there tonight,” following a cabinet meeting where the president said he had decided to make the more than 33,000-kilometere round trip himself to the archipelago east of Australia.
