Known to police and justice services, this suspect had already been sought since last May for not having respected his judicial control.
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The locality of James Smith Cree Nation, one of the theaters of the deadly attacks on Sunday in Canada, was on alert on Tuesday September 5 in the middle of the day, with the deployment of many police for trying to apprehend the last surviving suspect.
After asking the inhabitants to take shelter via a message broadcast on all mobile phones, many police cars arrived in this isolated locality in the center-west of Canada, journalists from the Agency France-Presse on site.
Two brothers from the region – Damien and Myles Sanderson – are suspected of having sown terror on Sunday in this village and that next to ten people with stabbing weapons and injuring eighteen other Before fleeing.
manhunt
Since then, hundreds of police have launched a great manhunt. After more than a day of hunt, the police finally discovered the body of Damien Sanderson, 31, near one of the localities where the murders took place. The circumstances of his death remain to be clarified, but he could have been killed by his brother, according to the police.
Myles Sanderson, 30, is still wanted. Known to the police and justice services, this suspect, who could himself be injured, was already wanted since last May for not having respected his judicial control. He had been sentenced to almost five years’ imprisonment, especially for theft.
The murders first touched this indigenous community in James Smith Cree Nation then the neighboring city of Weldon in the Saskatchewan, a very little populated rural province of the country center.
According to the police, some victims were targeted when others were struck at random. But the vast majority of them are indigenous. Since then, the community of James Smith Cree Nation has declared the state of emergency.
several episodes of violence in recent years
On social networks, many members of the CREE community (one of the First Nations of Canada) expressed their sadness and their dread. And the messages calling Myles Sanderson to go multiplied. Bobby Cameron, the chief of the federation of sovereign indigenous nations, which represents the communities of the province, implored “the whole population of the Saskatchewan to share any relevant information”. “The uncertainty continues to cause immeasurable stress and panic with our families, friends and neighbors. They have already suffered enough,” he added.
The community has already experienced episodes of violence. Last year, almost to the day, a shooting left two dead there.
In Canada, natives represent around 5 % of 38 million inhabitants, and live in communities often ravaged by unemployment and poverty. According to the latest official statistics, 50 % of the community in the community is under 24 and the unemployment rate is 24 %.
Several officials have also emphasized drug and alcohol problems as well as difficulties linked to generational trauma caused by a century of abuse, especially in residential schools created for Aboriginal people.