Overview

• In a June 12 video hearing, Tein agreed to respond to future judicial summons and reside with his partner in eastern France
• The court released him under judicial control with prohibitions on returning to New Caledonia or contacting other suspects in the case
• Tein has consistently denied instigating the May 2024 riots that left more than a dozen people dead and regards himself as a political prisoner
• Investigating magistrates found no proof that he was plotting an armed uprising against the French government
• His lawyer François Roux described the decision as a first victory in a decolonization case being monitored by the United Nations