Tensions are still rising in New Caledonia between separatists and non-separatists, who will march on Saturday April 13 at the same time in the capital and two streets apart. In the background, there is the nickel crisis, the territory’s major resource, and the reform of the electoral body, still under discussion before elections at the end of the year. The analysis of Benoît Trépied, anthropologist and research fellow at the CNRS, specialist in New Caledonia.