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NEW CALEDONIA

Police kills 1 civilian after Macron visit

A policeman in riot-hit New Caledonia killed a man on Friday after being attacked by protesters, as President Emmanuel Macron warned against the French Pacific territory turning into a new "Wild West", The latest fatality was a blow to hopes for calm after Macron's visit which some officials had seen as heralding an end to more than a week of violence that has now killed seven people. Macron flew on Thursday to the southwest Pacific archipelago, located some 17,000 kilometers from mainland France, in an urgent bid to defuse a swelling political crisis over voting reform. The killing of a 48-year-old man by police on Friday took the death toll from the unrest to seven, including two gendarmes. This was the first time that a civilian had been killed by a member of law enforcement since riots broke out on May 13.