Tensions remained high in Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government’s representative said areas of the Pacific territory had ‘escaped’ state control. Louis Le Franc, the high commissioner, announced that the number of police and gendarmes on the island would rise to 2,700 from 1,700 by Friday evening. ‘Reinforcements will be arriving … to control the areas that have escaped us in recent days, where control is no longer assured,’ he told reporters. One person suspected of homicide had surrendered to the authorities and Thursday night was relatively calm, he said, after the rioting that began on Monday had left five dead and resulted in hundreds of arrests
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