Images from the beginning of the „interministerial crisis unit“ meeting in Paris on the situation in New Caledonia, coordinated by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Anger over France’s plan to impose new voting rules has spiralled into the deadliest violence in four decades in the archipelago of 270,000 people, which lies between Australia and Fiji — 17,000 kilometres (10,600 miles) from Paris. IMAGES