From our special correspondent in Port-Vila (Vanuatu) and Kone (New Caledonia)
Gérald Darmanin's trip to New Caledonia ended on Sunday at the very place where it started.
In Koné, alongside the independence president of the North province, Paul Néaoutyine.
Surprise, when the padded door of the office of the old Kanak chief opens, it is Sonia Backès who precedes him.
“Look, there are all the journalists…”
, says her loyalist rival and counterpart from the Southern Province, suggesting that she strike a pose.
And now the photo that the Minister of the Interior and Overseas had come to get is realized in extremis.
Rare image that these two figures of the Caillou that almost everything opposes, one next to the other.
"It was the first time in three years
," says Sonia Backès, who is also Secretary of State for Citizenship.
The witnesses of the interview even assure that, in their momentum, they came to shake hands.
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