Benedict Maria, humanitarian, 55 years old, lived for casino siteleri 20 years in Guatemala, where he was killed Monday during an armed attack.
A Frenchman was killed Monday in Guatemala during an armed attack on his vehicle in the north-east of the country. Benedict Maria, head of Agronomists and veterinarians without borders (AVSF) has fallen into an “ambush”, according to the director general of the NGO.
This agricultural engineer French 55 years directing the activities of AVSF for the last 20 years in Guatemala where he carried out agricultural projects in favour of indigenous maya communities, and assisting in the preservation of their land.
On Twitter, the president and Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the”commitment to humanism, fraternity, and solidarity that does honor to France” by Benedict Maria, “basely murdered yesterday.” “He was caught in an ambush and was killed by a stray bullet in his car. The guatemalan police is conducting investigations and will take necessary steps”, said his side AFP Frédéric Apollin, director of the NGO.
summer Offer : Take advantage of the special offer 2 months for€ 1 I would like to subscribe
Support agricultural projects for indigenous communities
According to several local media, Benedict Maria was at the wheel of a pickup truck on a highway located near the indigenous village of San Antonio Ilotenango, approximately 85 kilometres north-west of the capital Guatemala city, when he was killed by bullets. The mobile of this attack was not known in the immediate future.
“Well-known to the embassy of France, Benedict Maria worked to improve the plight of the most disadvantaged populations of the west”, still reports a press release published on the page Facebook of the embassy.
According to Jorge Santos, coordinator of Udefegua, Benedict Maria was at the head of AVSF and lived for more than twenty years in Guatemala where he provided support to agricultural projects in favour of indigenous communities of the maya Ixil. He has also participated in the creation in 2011 of the university of Ixil, in the department of Quiché, dedicated to the ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples.
“The work on the land in Guatemala is in fact sensitive, but we cannot speak of a threat, there was, to our knowledge, none of that weighed on our association or Benedict who was obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Frédéric Apollin, which ensures that AVSF is working “for the past 20 years in the calm” in the country.
The embassy of France in Guatemala in a press release of his “dismay”. It adds to be in “contact with the guatemalan authorities to ensure that this crime is solved and that justice can be done quickly”.
