A solidarity quite solitary

Town hall of Angers demonstrates that it thinks to the two French editors, hostages in Afghanistan of the talibans since six months. Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier had been caught by the religious guerilla in the end of june 2010. The banner, hang up in the front side of city hall above the main entrance, recalls to the inhabitants that they don't live in a close world and that Angers can't only be preoccupied by its own difficulties and projects.

Nevertheless, may be another place could be more appropriate for that banner which looks quite solitary, solemn and distant of daily life on the top of the municipal building. In fact, the public daily entrance of town hall is just a little bit below. Hundreds of inhabitants coming through for administrative purposes could have in mind (if the banner would be set near the swing doors of town hall) that horrible and intolerable detention .

While the New Year speech of the mayor didn't tackled the issue and the protest is difficult to find out in Angers website, a change of place could illustrate that the city constantly has in mind the fate of editors whom work was paid tribute for years with the Angers Scoop festival.