13 January, 2013

A horrible news item may raise questions on mutual abilities of Angers and displaced individuals to match

The horrible murder occured on Saturday around 11 am in front of a building located Pasteur avenue in Angers suspects a 29 years old Sudanese, until now unknown from the police department. The man is suspected to have cut a 60 years woman's throat on the outside steps of the building where the victim lived. According to some witnesses, "the man looked mad and threatened the other pedestrians with a knife" before the arrival of the police forces. When these were on the scene, the man attempted to grasp a semi-automatic gun just before he was wounded by a shot of the police.

The Angers mayor, Frédéric Béatse, was on the scene crime and, "horrified and affected by this news item" expressed "his compassion and solidarity to the victim's family". He ordered that a psychological assistance be given to witnesses of the murder and neighbours of the victim themselves upset (some of these saw the victim "laying on the ground in a pool of blood").

Such a disaster - if the suspect is convicted - may raise questions within Angers population and its representatives about the ability of the city to host people without giving them the sufficient assistance to adapt to a new way of life and without monitoring they have the abilities to do so : knowledge of the society they are in, professionnal qualifications and, above all, the wish to integrate themselves to their new environment. Most of them have been "landed" in Angers by people smugglers only interested by money. A fact Angers city should not be ignorant.

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