The biggest political party that supports freedom, Caledonian Union, named Daniel Goa, president, said in a statement that he was “astonished” by Tein’s imprisonment on Saturday evening.
” All they have done has been to organise more quiet presentations”, he said. He denied the lawyer’s claims that Tein and the others were partners of crime.
Tein, who leads a Caledonian Union offshoot known as Field Action Coordination Cell (CCAT ), was taken into custody by police last week.
In an effort to break the political stalemate, Tein met French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Noumea next month, where they set up walls that have slowed prospects for months.
A third of local businesses were destroyed, according to European nationalist politicians Sonia Backes and Nicolas Metzdorf, who wrote to Macron on Monday and wrote that the New Caledonian authorities should be put under state control because it was” no longer fit to lead.”