The time was for meditation this Monday morning. At 11 am, the remains of Aboubakar Cissé, wildly murdered in a Mosque in the Grand-Combe (Gard) on April 25, arrived at the Grand Mosque in Paris.
A religious ceremony was celebrated “before repatriation towards (the) native land” of the body of the 22 -year -old Malian, where he will be buried, according to a press release from the rector. A mortuary prayer was planned before a “moment of meditation”, according to the text. A large crowd of faithful and relatives of the victim was present.
“We, Muslims in France, expect more than simple declarations. This crime is not a news item, it is an act of hatred, extreme violence, punctuated by anti-Islam invective (…) It is an Islamophobic attack, a terrorist crime, “denounced the rector of the great mosque, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, during a speaking.
The meeting between the family and Bruno Retailleau repelled
“Some absences, hesitations, have left traces. When the word Islamophobic becomes the object of a sterile debate, the real violence is denied. (…) We cannot fight a hatred that we refuse to name, “he added. “This drama should not become the ferment of an additional division. He must be a salutary shock, an awareness of the precious bond that unites us beyond our differences, “continued the rector of the Great Mosque in Paris.
This Monday, a meeting was to take place between the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, and the family of the victim, as well as members of the High Council of Malians of France. She was finally pushed back to May 23. If the entourage of the tenant of Place Beauvau assures that he is in contact with uncles of Aboubakar Cissé, Aminata Konaté-Boune, family spokesperson, assures that none of its members has been contacted, but that links have been established with representatives of the Malian community.
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A judicial information for aggravated assassination due to the victim’s belonging to a religion was entrusted to an investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center. But the relatives of the victim claim that the investigations in this crime, which they consider as a “terrorist attack”, be entrusted to the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT).
