Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Tribute / Demange: Billiards shocked

The member Martine Billard (Greens) Tuesday expressed "deeply shocked" by the minute of silence observed before the National Assembly in honor of Jean-Marie Demange, UMP deputy who shot his wife with a bullet in the head before suicide.

"If I am viscerally attached to respect for the presumption of innocence, it seems to me that in such circumstances, it would have been desirable for our assembly refrain from such an act," wrote Ms. Billard the president of UMP Assembly, Bernard Accoyer.

"A few days before the international day of struggle against violence against women, such a tribute can not be a message to say the least inappropriate to address our citizens," said the member of Paris' thinking the first "to the companion of Mr. Demange," the first victim of this tragedy. "

Monday afternoon, two hours after the announcement of his murder followed by suicide, the chairman of the meeting, Daniele-Hoffman Rispal (PS), said at the opening of the debate: "I am sad to make the death of our colleague Jean-Marie Demange, MP for the Ninth Circuit de Moselle. I invite the Assembly to observe a minute of silence. "

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