Slaughter in the mosque: Labeaume listening to the mayors of Las Vegas and Orlando

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Carolyn Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas

Stephanie Martin

Friday, 26 January, 2018 00:00

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WASHINGTON | One year after the attack on the mosque, Québec has not been mourning, according to mayor Labeaume. Thursday in Washington, he was attentive to the words of his counterparts in Orlando and Las Vegas, who have also experienced the horror.

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On his first visit to Washington as mayor of Quebec city, Régis Labeaume has had a busy day Thursday. The question of the killings has occupied a large part of its trade within the framework of the US Conference of Mayors. This is in part due to this tragic event that occurred last January, he was invited to.

Wounds still bright

In Quebec, the wounds are still sharp, ” he said. “It has been difficult to work with the muslim community in the last year because they are afraid, they are in distress. The mourning will be done from the commemoration of the end of the week. Now I have the task and responsibility to pick up the pieces. “It happens, according to him, by the discovery of the other, particularly in cultural terms.

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The mayor also attended a conference of the mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, who has just been through the worst shooting in the history of the United States, in October, while a shooter has opened fire on spectators at a music festival in the country, resulting in 58 deaths.

He also met Buddy Dyer, mayor of Orlando, when a killer has killed 49 people in a nightclub for LGBT in 2016. It drives home the point that ” the light must always prevail over the darkness “. “From the beginning, we established that we were not going to let ourselves be defined by the barbarous act, but by the response to this act. And we have responded with love, compassion and humanity “, expressed by Mr. Dyer, in interview to the Newspaper.

The tragedy still has “changed the community for the better,” he points out. “Two days after the slaughter, we held a ceremony in a baptist church ultraconservative. And several pastors have told us that this had opened my eyes to the suffering of the LGBT community. This is a huge change. “

Focus on prevention

Orlando now focuses on prevention and has put in place a system to detect signs of radicalization in some individuals. “This is going to happen again “, dropped Carolyn Goodman. “For me, it’s all in the preparation, training and education. Because somewhere, in this country, a person is wondering how he can shoot 59. “