A man who was declared ineligible forunemployment benefit has died after settinghimself on fire outside a job centre in western France.
Police in Nantes tried tostop the unnamed man, 43, but he managed to pass them, dousing himselfin petrol and setting himself alight. The police had beenalerted by messages he sent to the media announcing his plans to kill himself publicly.
The jobless number in France recentlyrose to levels not seen in 12 years. With more than three million people unemployed, the Socialist government has struggled to create new jobs in its first year in office.
Last month, a jobless man in the Spanish city of Malaga also died after setting himself alight. On Tuesday morning, the man in Nantes sent an email, declaring his intention to burn himself, which was laterpublished in a local newspaper, Presse-Ocean. He said he had worked enoughhours to qualify legally for benefit but had been refused.
Nearly three hours later, the man wrote again to say the centre was closed and he planned to return there with petrol, either on Wednesday or Thursday. Police mounted a watch outsidethe job centre on Wednesday morning after trying unsuccessfully to contact the man, an unnamed policeman told the paper.
“But this man arrived via an adjacent street,” the policeman said. “He was already in flames and out of sight of the police.”
Rescue services were unable to savethe man’s life. The state employment agency in Parisconfirmed the man had been registered at the centre in Nantes and said he had no longer been entitled to benefit. Local politicians reacted with horror to newsof the self-immolation,adding that only a formal inquest could perhaps establish the man’s true motives.
“The collectivereality of unemployment should not make us forgetthe everyday, individual distress of each unemployed person,” said Jacques Auxiette, chairman of thePays de la Loire regional council.
http://www.informationng.com/2013/02/man-burns-himself-to-death-at-job-centre.html

I can almost imagine it
"I have the right to burn myself"
but seriously, it is unfortunate

Mynd_44: I can almost imagine it
"I have the right to burn myself"
but seriously, it is unfortunate

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