Xavier de Furst
Encyclopedia
Xavier de Fürst is the high administrator of the French
government in the Wallis and Futuna
islands in the South Pacific. He accepted the role and became administrator of the islands on 18 January 2005. He was succeeded by Richard Didier
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On 24 May 2005, de Fürst stopped paying King of Wallis Tomasi Kulimoetoke II
his €5,500 payment made by France because he refused to hand over his grandson, guilty of killing a person while drunk driving, to the police.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
government in the Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,...
islands in the South Pacific. He accepted the role and became administrator of the islands on 18 January 2005. He was succeeded by Richard Didier
Richard Didier
Richard Didier is a French civil servant and administrator. Didier served as the Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna for two years August 14, 2006 and August 2008....
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On 24 May 2005, de Fürst stopped paying King of Wallis Tomasi Kulimoetoke II
Tomasi Kulimoetoke II
Tomasi Kulimoetoke II was the 50th Lavelua of Wallis Island, which is known as Uvea in the Wallisian language, one of the three traditional kingdoms in the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna....
his €5,500 payment made by France because he refused to hand over his grandson, guilty of killing a person while drunk driving, to the police.