Friday, April 25 in the morning, Aboubakar Cissé, a young man in his twenties, was brutally murdered at the Khadidja mosque in Grande-Combe, in the Gard. Although the investigation is still in progress, the Islamophobic mobile is little doubt: the assailant filmed his victim by claiming his attack and exclaiming “ your allah shitty ». Tsedek ! Presents his most sincere condolences to the family of Aboubakar Cissé and his relatives, and affirms his support for the Muslim community after this drama.
The emotion and the scandal that should cause an attack of such gravity, however, took a while to appear in the national media, which initially showed a restraint of which they are not very customary in other circumstances. The first articles on the subject evoke a possible “ Settlement of accounts between faithful “, Without notice the ostensibly Islamophobic crime character. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, for his part, did not see goodly to upset his agenda. Being satisfied with a tweet ensuring his “ support “To the family and” His solidarity To the Muslim community, the rest program of his day was devoted to a campaign meeting for the presidency of the Les Républicains party.
Subsequently, other reactions were heard in the drop ; everywhere of “ support Expresses, including at Marine Le Pen. However, very few mention the evidence of Bruno Retailleau who indicated today on BFM « do not know the mobile From the crime, to a part of the left that competes with euphémisms not to say things as they are: the death of Aboubakar Cissé is an Islamophobic murder.
This drama is unfortunately not an isolated fact. On August 31, Djamel Bendjaballah was assassinated in Dunkirk by an far-right activist, after having filed a complaint several times to report the racist insults who aimed. The police had however ruled out any racist mobile, and mentioned a “ passionate crime – Qualification whose feminist fight has largely demonstrated, about feminicides, the depoliticing nature. This assassination had only been reported by the Blast online media, without continuous information channels seeing the interest of a special edition. In the same way, on April 8, two women had been violently went to tobacco in Joué-lès-Tours to the cries of “ Go home, dirty Arabic » ; The facts had only been relayed in the regional press.
To understand them, it is absolutely necessary to re -situate these crimes and assaults in the continuum of speeches and racist policies which today structure French society. They are the very concrete consequences of Islamophobia openly maintained by the French State and the mainstream media. The year that has just passed has seen several figures from the Muslim community are expelled or threatened with expulsion overnight, from Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi to the president of the Pessac mosque, Abdourahmane Ridouane. Last February, the humorist Merwan Benlazar was excluded from the public service following a racist campaign launched by the European Macronist deputy and former member of the GUD Nathalie Loiseau. In the meantime, BFM TV had found a way to attribute the shortage of eggs to the breaking meals of the Ramadan fast. The latest episode of this long series are unworthy debates on Muslim and football, whether professional players accused of spraining secularism when they break Ramadan fasting or women prohibited from playing because of their hijab. The culmination of this controversy had been the foul -smelling intervention of Bruno Retailleau on March 26 at the conference “ for the Republic »Organized by the Pro-Israelian Lobby Elnet and supported by the Mécène de l’Emmoste Pierre-Edouard Sterin. The Minister of the Interior then exclaimed “ down the veil ! »Under the applause nourished by the room. It is this atmosphere Islamophobia that creates conditions and encourages the transition to murderous act.
