President Saunders Gunned Down in St. Andrews
WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL O'ROARK | December 9, 2016
The President of the Milinoquen Republic, Phillip Saunders, was shot dead in the city of St. Andrews this afternoon.
The city, wracked by fighting between the Francophone majority and the Anglophone ruling-minority, became filled with investigators from the Milinoquen National Police Service as word of the attack spread around the country.
President Saunders was speaking at a pro-Socialist rally in the city, when a gunman opened fire, shooting the president three times. Local resident Thomas Gage was arrested on charges of murdering a federal official. Gage was known to coworkers to be an outspoken Anglo-supremacist, and, according to police, he was an active member of the Anglo Union.
The Anglo Union's St. Andrews building was stormed by police shortly after Gage was arrested.
Vice President Nicholas Hillard was inaugurated shortly after the shooting.
Francophone civil rights advocate Louis Del Marque announced that his organization, Union pour les Droits des Francophones (Union for the Rights of Francophones) will be holding a vigil to honor President Saunders, whom the group endorsed during the 2010 and 2015 presidential election.
