A man is between life and death after a GIGN intervention in Koutio on Wednesday evening. It was a gendarme from this elite unit who fired after being targeted among a group of rioters. Several people were at or near the scene.
The operation did not go unnoticed. Wednesday May 29, a GIGN intervention is held in Koutio. A rioter is seriously injured by a response from the gendarmes who were first targeted by the group.
VSThis massive arrival of the police surprised the inhabitants of this popular and rather isolated district, made up of modest houses to the south of Dumbéa.
We’ve never seen that here in our neighborhood.
Nearby, a roadblock has been resisting the police for eighteen days in the Palmiers sector and Avenue de la Tonghoué. Starting point of the clashes, this is what one of the young rioters, a minor, present at the time of the events, recounts.
He wanted to shoot the police. I believe he targeted two GIGN soldiers
The man aimed at the police and fled. A short-lived escape, since this thirty-year-old was targeted several times by the GIGN, in the rue des Aloès, where these clashes took place.
Residents remained confined to their homes to protect themselves from gunfire and tear gas. A resident recounts these very worrying moments to Coralie Cochin.