Gemma Redmond, the grieving British bride who lost her husband in a shark attack in the Seychelles has spoken to BBC Radio and in her own voice said:-
“The last thing I would want is for any of these events to affect the Seychellois people, their livelihoods and the tourism in the area.
It's a beautiful place, people must come.
It's a one-off accident and I know that everybody is doing everything they can to ensure that the islands are safe”.
Gemma Redmond, 27, who is now back to London accompanied by her parents spoke to BBC Radio about her stay in the Seychelles and the snorkeling day at Anse Lazio at Praslin Island where her husband, Ian, 30, was attacked by a shark.
Gemma has reinforced the claim being made by Seychelles Authorities when she said they had gone to the Seychelles partly because they had thought the islands were free from dangerous animals. The Seychelles have stated over and over again that their last recorded fatal shark attack before these two back to back ones was in 1963. Mrs Redmond said on BBC that she hoped the attack on her own husband would not stop people from visiting the area and that local people had been "so kind". She said: "The last thing I would want is for any of these events to affect the Seychelles Island people, their livelihoods and the tourism in the area."It's a beautiful area, people must come. "It's a one-off accident and I know that everybody is doing everything they can to ensure that the islands are safe - the restaurants on the beaches and the places on the beaches and the hotels shouldn't be affected by it."
Ian Redmond lost his life 10 days after his wedding to Gemma Houghton at St Michael's Church in Dalton, Lancashire, near the bride's family home.
The Seychelles Government officials have issued a ban on swimming in certain areas close to the two back to back shark attacks until the killer shark is captured. The Seychelles Authorities are still trying to determine what species of shark killed Mr Redmond, and have enlisted the help of South African Shark experts who are expected to arrive in the country this Saturday. The island’s Coast Guards, the Fishing Authority, the Maritime Safety Department and the Department of Environment in their efforts to ensure normality returns to Anse Lazio and it neighboring beaches as soon as possible.
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Aren't you lot gonna say the PL paid her off to say that?
Last shark attack in 1963 they say?
http://www.sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/GSAF5.xls
Not quite
Jaws
August 1st 2005, North Island, R. Lesperance.
September 2007, Bird Island.
And those are the reported ones.
It does sound that the authorities might have told her to say that. You can tell her own words from official words.
I think the giveaway is the phrase "the Seychellois people". Very few foreigners know that people from Seychelles are called Seychellois and she pronounced it very well. Yep, it sounds like they got her to say it.
Maybe during her stay in happier times before the tragedy while intergrating with locals she learnt from them that we are "Seychellois" with pronounciation and all!
She is in her country free from any influence so why do you think our government got to her?
Arseholes!
She was right to say what she said and was probably advised by the British consulate rather than the Seychelles Government. But you cannot deny that the Seychelles Authorities have lied about previous shark attacks, the more they lie the deeper the hole to climb out of.
She gave the interview in Seychelles, probably surrounded by PL goons.
Even the British High Commissioner is careful not to upset the Seychelles dictatorship.
The term "the Seychellois people" sounds very diplomatic language, not normally heard from a 27 year-old teacher from an English shire.
Of course the British High Commissioner is careful not to upset us in case we send all the Hounslow exiles anba pon on a rioting spree (again) across London!
Now Alain St Ange will be spending his time in Australia talking about sharks and government negligence. Hardly tourism promotion stuff.
You people have no morals or dignity. Can you not let that poor lady mourn in peace rather than questioning whether she said it from her Heart or whether it was fed to her by PP
Why didn't Parti Lepep let her mourn in peace ?
Nothing wrong with the sharks,they live in the ocean and we live on earth.Maybe the JAPS were after them.
Those Seychelles leaders need to attend church services more often,not only before an election or when there tourists are eaten by sharks
Saint Michel de PADOU.
Saint Michel de PADOU
Sharks live in the ocean and we human beings live on Land. Earth is our planets name and both sharks, us and other living beings inhabit it!!
Nothing wrong with the shark,what is wrong is Pp passivity to respond to emergency need and to take appropriate decision to secure the area minute after the attack and beyond.It fails tpput personal in place to monitor the area. It is just another failure more on the list of PP failed regime.
Jeanne D'Arc
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