'There is anguish': Mayor of missing French tourists' hometown "There is shock, there is anguish, there is emotion, and obviously it is unbearable for the families and relatives to have to wait, and as everyone knows everyone, this [pain] is shared," says Claude Abel, the mayor Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines, the hometown in France of several French tourists who are missing following a snowmobile trip in Canada. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES