Police in New Caledonia have arrested a pro-independence leader, Christian Tein, and 10 others over their alleged roles in the deadly protests that swept the archipelago last month, prosecutors have said.
Tein, head of the CCAT which organised protest barricades across the capital Nouméa, was the only detainee named by chief prosecutor Yves Dupas. He said they had been arrested for “organised crime” offences, under which they can be held for up to 96 hours.
