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Tentative trial dates set for four teens charged with murder | SaltWire #newsupdate #halifax #courtSYDNEY - Gunshots could be heard and schools remained shut in New Caledonia's capital Noumea on Wednesday morning after a night of rioting despite a curfew, as France's National Assembly approved changes to voting rules in the Pacific island.
On Wednesday morning, Lilou Garrido Navarro Kherachi, 19, drove around protestor blockades in Noumea and saw burning cars and buildings, including a ruined veterinary clinic where the neighbors had evacuated the animals before the fire spread."The real problem is the youngsters who trash, burn and loot. We didn't see any police deployed on site," she said.
"Residents are terrorised, armed and organising themselves to make the rounds tonight and protect their homes," Garrido Navarro Kherachi said, adding gunfire could be heard in her neighbourhood. Garrido Navarro Kherachi moved to New Caledonia when she was eight years old, and has never been back to France. Although eligible to vote under the new rules, she says she won't"out of respect for the Kanak people".
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