After scenes of violence of "great intensity" including burned vehicles, looted stores and clashes between demonstrators and the police, a curfew was decreed in Noumea, 17,000 kilometers from Paris, as the independentists of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia oppose a constitutional revision they fear will "further minimize the indigenous Kanak people".//JOBNICOLAS_job0057/Credit:NICOLAS JOB/SIPA/2405150833,Image: 873103744, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no

After scenes of violence of "great intensity" including burned vehicles, looted stores and clashes between demonstrators and the police, a curfew was decreed in Noumea, 17,000 kilometers from Paris, as the independentists of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia oppose a constitutional revision they fear will "further minimize the indigenous Kanak people".//JOBNICOLAS_job0094/Credit:NICOLAS JOB/SIPA/2405150836,Image: 873103954, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no

Masked residents of neighborhoods south of the capital, set-up roadblocks to block access and channel pro-independence activists at the entrance to Tuband, in the Motor Pool district of Noumea on May 15, 2024, amid protests linked to a debate on a constitutional bill aimed at enlarging the electorate for upcoming elections of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia. One person was killed, hundreds more were injured, shops were looted and public buildings torched during a second night of rioting in New Caledonia, authorities said Wednesday, as anger over constitutional reforms from Paris boiled over.,Image: 873125010, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no