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| Un anglophone tire sur des francophones: un mort et un blessé grave. Een Engelstalige schiet op Franstaligen: 1 dode en één zwaargewonde.DE STANDAARD Dode bij schietpartij tijdens speech nieuwe premier Québec
woensdag 05 september 2012, 09u06
Bron: afp, cnn
Auteur: jns
AP
Bij een schietpartij in in Québec, de Franssprekende provincie van Canada, is dinsdagnacht een dode gevallen. Een man opende het vuur toen de nieuwe premier Pauline Marois van de Parti Québécois een overwinningstoespraak gaf in Montréal.
De liberalen regeerden de afgelopen 9 jaar in Québec, maar bij de verkiezingen van dinsdag kwam de separatisten van de Parti Québécois als winnaar uit de bus. De 63-jarige partijvoorzitster Pauline Marois wordt op die manier de eerste vrouwelijke premier in de geschiedenis van de provincie.
Marois gaf dinsdag rond middernacht een toespraak in een concertzaal in Montréal toen iemand het vuur opende. Er viel één dode en een zwaargewonde. De schutter werd meteen opgepakt door agenten die zich in zijn nabijheid bevonden. Bij zijn arrestatie riep de man met een zwaar Engels accent: 'De Engelsen ontwaken'. Volgens Canadese journalisten ter plaatse voegde hij daar nog aan toe dat 'we jullie een koekje van eigen deeg zullen geven'.
De overwinningstoespraak van Marois werd meteen onderbroken en haar lijfwachten leidden haar weg. De schoten weerklonken net nadat zij gezegd had dat 'de toekomst van Québec erin bestaat een soeverein land te worden'. Na een onderbreking van enkele minuten keerde Marois terug naar het podium om het publiek te kalmeren en haar toespraak af te sluiten.
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE Québec: un mort durant le discours de la nouvelle Premier ministre
AFP
Mis en ligne le 05/09/2012
Québec: La mort s'invite à la fête de la victoire indépendantiste
La foule ne cesse de clamer "Pauline, Pauline", interrompant la nouvelle Première ministre. Les drapeaux québécois s'agitent frénétiquement. La fête indépendantiste bat son plein. Soudain, Pauline Marois est évacuée. Un homme a été tué à quelques mètres de là.
Il est environ minuit. La chef de file du Parti Québécois (PQ) se trouve sur l'estrade d'une salle de concert branchée de Montréal, célébrant la victoire électorale de sa formation. Certaines personnes ont les larmes aux yeux: les "souverainistes" reviennent à la tête de la province francophone, après neuf ans d'absence.
Quand tout à coup deux hommes en costume noir, des agents de la Sûreté du Québec, la police provinciale, sautent sur la scène de la salle de concert Métropolis, attrapent Pauline Marois par les bras et la conduisent dans les coulisses.
Stupeur dans la salle.
La foule hésite. "Qu'est-ce que c'est?", lance-t-on à son voisin. "Aucune idée." Les journalistes s'agitent. Les présentateurs des chaînes de télévision filent devant leurs caméras pour reprendre le direct. Des photographes cherchent à ouvrir les sorties de secours: une fumée épaisse blanche s'élève de la ruelle adjacente. Des policiers courent, armes au poing: "Ferme ça", crie une agente.
L'incompréhension est totale. Une rumeur folle commence alors à se propager dans la salle... Un responsable du Parti Québécois tend son portable: un texto annonce qu'un homme a tiré des coups de feu et tenté de mettre le feu à la salle.
"Ca a fait bang! Bang!", raconte Claude Dubois, un Montréalais d'une soixantaine d'années. "J'étais à l'étage, quelqu'un qui n'avait pas pu entrer a tiré de dehors", dit-il, le regard perdu.
A l'extérieur, les troupes d'élite de la police de Montréal se déploient en grand nombre au milieu d'imposants camions de pompiers et de quelques étudiants venus rappeler à Mme Marois sa promesse d'abolir la forte hausse des frais de scolarité décrétée par le gouvernement sortant.
La nouvelle Première ministre revient sur scène, convie la foule à quitter calmement la salle. Avant de se reprendre quelques secondes plus tard: "Attendez!", lance-t-elle à ses partisans, avant de conclure son discours. Mais la fête est belle est bien gâchée.
"Je suis sûr qu'on a voulu la tuer car c'est une femme. Il y en a qui ne sont pas encore prêts pour ça", juge Maryse Chaussée, 22 ans, en évacuant la salle. Thomas Gerbet, un journaliste de Radio-Canada, a assisté à l'arrestation, dans la ruelle à l'arrière du Métropolis. Un homme aux propos confus a été plaqué à terre. "Il portait une cagoule noire très fine. Il y avait un long fusil à terre."
La police a plus tard indiqué que les tirs de l'agresseur présumé avaient fait un mort, décédé sur place, et un blessé qui est dans un état grave. L'homme, âgé d'une cinquantaine d'années, avait pénétré dans "le vestibule arrière" du Métropolis avant de sortir et de tenter de mettre le feu à une porte, ont précisé les policiers, disant avoir retrouvé "plus d'une arme".
Plusieurs journalistes présents racontent avoir entendu le suspect lancer en français avec un fort accent anglais: "Les Anglais se réveillent". Avant de dire en anglais: On va vous rendre la monnaie de la pièce".
La dirigeante indépendantiste venait de déclarer: "l'avenir du Québec, c'est de devenir un pays souverain." CBC NEWS CANADA Pauline Marois to lead as Quebec's 1st female premier
PQ leader rushed off stage at Montreal venue after deadly shooting
CBC News
Posted: Sep 4, 2012 8:00 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 5, 2012 5:42 AM ET
Election results from Quebec ridings with highest anglophone populations
Marois Montreal victory rally shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
Quebec Votes 2012
Premier Jean Charest loses home riding of Sherbrooke
Pauline Marois and the Parti Québécois claimed victory over the incumbent Liberals Tuesday night, winning a minority government in an election night that ended with a deadly shooting.
One person died and another was critically injured after shots were fired at Montreal's Metropolis, where Marois was in the middle of her victory speech. A third victim was treated for shock in hospital.
Quebec's premier-designate had just told a cheering crowd that Quebec needs to become an independent country when her bodyguards swooped in and whisked her off stage.
Marois returned a few minutes later and urged supporters to leave the premises calmly.
Outside the downtown club, Montreal police took down a balaclava-clad man in his 50s who appeared to have a rifle. As officers pinned the man on the street, a fire burned at the rear of the building before firefighters extinguished it.
Marois took the podium just before midnight as a gleeful crowd of supporters burst into a round of Gens du Pays, a nationalist anthem, Marois told all Quebecers she was hopeful they could put aside their differences for a united Quebec.
"Voters have made a choice and we will respect it, and we will govern with all other parties at the national assembly," she told the packed room at the Metropolis concert hall. The PQ won 54 of the province's 125 seats with 31.9 per cent of the vote.
Marois, 63, will become the province's first female premier.
During her speech, Marois thanked all of the candidates in the election and said the PQ will govern with all parties represented at the national assembly.
In English, Marois directly addressed anglophone Quebecers, saying their rights would be respected.
"We share the same history, and I want us to shape together our common future," she said.
She also addressed her "friends and neighbours in Canada" saying that Quebec needs to become sovereign.
"We want a country and we will have it," Marois said to loud cheers.
While the minority win falls short of a majority the PQ pitched for during the campaign, it marks a significant loss for the Liberals, who, after nine years in power, gambled on a summer election a year before the end of their mandate. The party received 31.2 per cent of the vote and earned 50 seats.
Longtime premier Jean Charest lost his bet that student turmoil and a soft economy would be enough to push voters to support a Liberal government for a fourth term.
In her victory speech, Marois told the crowd they should salute Charest who held a "demanding" job for nine years.
Charest falls in own riding
In his own riding of Sherbrooke, Charest lost to PQ candidate Serge Cardin, a former Bloc Québécois MP.
With a hoarse voice, Charest conceded defeat to a crowd gathered in his home riding, alongside his wife and family.
"This is not the result I would have wanted. This is not a battle that I backed away from. I now have the firm conviction that our party will continue to serve Quebec, and will do it together."
Charest pointed to the PQ's failure to gain a majority, saying the campaign results show that the "future of Quebec lies within Canada."
He took responsibility for the Liberal loss, saying he did so with an "open heart."
"I tell you at the same time, there will be other chances for the Quebec Liberal Party," he said.
"We have work to do. We proposed things to Quebecers, and now, faced with a minority government, we will be able to make our own contribution to the further construction of Quebec."
CAQ wins 19 seats
The newly formed Coalition Avenir Québec, in its first appearance in an provincial election, had a good showing, coming in third with 19 seats.
"The political landscape of Quebec will never be the same," CAQ Leader François Legault told a crowd gathered in Repentigny. "We will see a new political force rise in Quebec. We can be proud of the road travelled in the last year."
Legault won his riding of l'Assomption in a down-to-the-wire race against his nearest opponent, the PQ's Lizabel Nitoi.
Quebec Solidaire won two seats, one each for its co-spokespeople. Françoise David marked her first win in the Gouin riding, defeating PQ MNA Nicolas Girard, who had held the seat since 2004.
To a standing-room crowd at Montreal's Olympia Theatre, David thanked voters for believing in the party.
"Thank you for expressing a profound desire for a feminist, ecologist and sovereigntist change," she said.
The former president of the Quebec federation of women congratulated Marois on her historic achievement as the first woman to lead Quebec's government.
Amir Khadir, the party's other spokesperson and sole QS MNA when the national assembly was dissolved, has also been re-elected in the Montreal riding of Mercier.
Jean-Martin Aussant, leader of the Option Nationale, lost to the CAQ candidate Donald Martel in the Nicolet-Bécancour riding. Aussant previously held the same riding for the PQ before he left the party in 2011.
Challenging night for star candidates, cabinet ministers
While all eyes were on the party leaders, the spotlight was also shining on several key candidates.
Former student leader and PQ candidate Léo Bureau-Blouin won the riding of Laval-des-Rapides, defeating the Liberal incumbent Alan Paquet and CAQ's star challenger Maud Cohen.
Jacques Duchesneau, former head of the province's anti-corruption squad and high-profile CAQ candidate, won his race in St-Jérôme.
Four cabinet ministers — Pierre Corbeil, Clément Gignac, Alain Paquet and Serge Simard — were all defeated. All four lost their seats to PQ challengers.
Heated campaign
This campaign wasn’t a walk in the park for any party, with all leaders traversing the province and revving up the engines of their get-out-the-vote machine until its dying hours.
The Liberals were in a fight for their political lives since the campaign's very first day.
The PQ and the upstart CAQ were quick to try to claim an advantage by highlighting the Liberal record on economic issues, the continuing corruption inquiry into the construction industry and the government’s handling of the tuition crisis and resulting civil unrest last spring.
Voters elected 125 representatives to form the legislature’s 40th national assembly. Sixty-three seats were required to form a majority government. | |
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