A protester was shot to death on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe as weeks of strikes and labor unrest degenerated into violence, the region's top official said Wednesday....The man was apparently shot by youths manning barricades in a housing project in Pointe-a-Pitre, Nicolas Desforges, the top appointed official on the island, said by telephone.The dead man, Jacques Bino, was a tax agent and union member returning home from protests, Desforges said.
The dead man, Jacques Bino, was a tax agent and union member returning home from protests, Desforges said.
SOT Yves Jego, Secretary of State for Overseas Territories: `First, I'm stunned by what's happened. One person, apparently a unionist and member of a collective was found dead in his car, clearly murdered by rioters, and police officers who came to help him were also injured. We can see that the only viable strategy and the only possible way out of this since the start is through social dialogue. We truly need a truce in the violence, we really need talks between bosses and workers to resume.`
