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French companies might
pull out employees' families over high SA crime
Date Posted: Friday 02-Nov-2007
Pretoria -
Big French companies -- planning to invest in South Africa -- are
considering whether workers should leave their families behind in France,
due to the growing number of attacks on French citizens in the country.
Christian Bader, the French Consul-General said this on Thursday, following
a criminal attack on French Military attaché Naval Captain Denis Fabré and
his family.
They were brutally held up by armed robbers at their house in Sandton on
Monday morning. Fabré, his wife and their children, aged seven and nine,
were overpowered in the house, shoved around and tied up.
The robbers looted their house of its domestic appliances, packed everything
into the family's car and sped off.
Bader said no-one had been injured, but the family of four had been badly
traumatised.
LINK
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2213702,00.html
(SA Newspaper)
MEANWHILE back in Johannesburg, a gathering of security experts from SA and
Germany on the same day were sitting around agreeing that the 2010 World
Soccer Cup hosts "are on target to deliver a safe and secure tournament,
despite various significant obstacles..." which they did not specify
any further.
The "2010 Safety and Security Summit" in Port Elizabeth featured WC2010
security organiser Danny Jordaan, the country's national head of security
for WC2010 Linda Mti and German experts for the 2006 German World Cup.
"The objectives of the summit are to ensure that law enforcement agencies
and the Criminal Justice System establish "appropriate and holistic security
plans", it was being claimed.
They would ' develop a volunteer strategy for communities to contribute to
the safety and security of the tournament and create an integrated
Provincial Safety and Security Plan. "
COMMENT: Try telling that to the French
diplomat's small children who will be traumatised for the rest of their
lives -- or to those CEO's of French companies planning to leave the family
members of employees back in France because of the high crime levels in
South Africa.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Soccer/0,,2-9-840_2214048,00.html
Source URL:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2213702,00.html
Posted By: Adriana
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From African
Crisis web site.
www.africancrisis.co.za
ALL ABOARD FOR THE FIFA
SOCCER WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 2010: IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH.
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