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on Le Monde's website, via email alert at 11h01, so it was made public then. How much time was taken to try to sort things out on the ground is not clear, but the delays (a couple hours, in the middle of the night over there) do not appear illegitimate or fishy.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 at 09:45:12 AM EST
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Well, according to Le Monde:

La situation aux Antilles - Société - Le Monde.fr

10:30 - Jacques Pino, un membre du LKP abattu

Jacques Pino, un membre du "collectif contre l'exploitation" (LKP) a été tué vers 00h30 (heure locale) par une balle tirée "depuis un barrage tenu par des jeunes" dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à Pointe-à-Pitre, indique la cellule de crise de la préfecture de la Guadeloupe. L'information a été donnée dans un premier temps par Europe 1.

But no, there's apparently nothing fishy.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:03:37 AM EST
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The one fishy thing is that the Police has already solved a crime despite being unable to inquire peacefully, i.e. being shot at as it approached.

How impossible would it be for at least some of the youth to be provocateurs ?

Apparently the state has now brought in the riot police, and has started arresting demonstrator - a bit of blood, attributable to the rioters, can be very convenient.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:10:41 AM EST
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do it, here in the States.  

The Fates are kind.
by Gaianne on Thu Feb 19th, 2009 at 01:28:31 AM EST
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there is nothing fishy - just that the timing of the announcement, in itself, is not suspicious.

As you and linca point out, there ARE other suspicious facts.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:16:29 AM EST
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Yes, my point above was that information may have been retained by the authorities, because that was the way it could look considering that police casualties were announced without a word about the unionist. It no longer seems to look that way.

But who killed the unionist, and why? That's another question.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:46:55 AM EST
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