The meeting scheduled for Monday, May 5, between the family of Aboubakar Cissé, representatives of the High Council of Malians of France and the minister of the Interior, was canceled at the request of a family member. A new date has been set for May 23. This Monday morning, a tribute was paid to him at the Great Mosque in Paris before his funeral in Mali.
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The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, proposed to receive the family of Aboubakar Cissé and representatives of the Malian community, on May 23, after a meeting scheduled for Monday was canceled at the request of one of the family members.
The vice-president of the High Council of Malians of France, Niakaté Djambéré Sega, said that a delegation including family members and the Malian community was to meet the minister today, at their request but the appointment was shifted due to the impediment of a relative of the victim.
“A new date has been proposed to the High Council of Malians of France and to all family members who will come to come”said the entourage of Bruno Retailleau who explains to exchange with one of the uncles of Aboubakar Cissé living in France.
“For the moment, Bruno Retailleau, has not contacted the family. It seems that it is linked to certain representatives of the Malian community but not with the family”, AFP told AFP Aminata Konaté-Boune, spokesperson for the family of Aboubakar Cissé, presents this Monday at the Great Mosque of Paris on the occasion of a religious ceremony for the deceased.
Before the funeral, scheduled in Mali, the remains of Aboubakar Cissé was welcomed this Monday at 11 a.m. on the Grand Mosque in Paris Monday, in the presence of a large crowd of faithful and relatives of the victim.
A mortuary prayer has been said by religious.
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.
Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Great Mosque in Paris.
“Certain absences, hesitations, have left traces. When the word Islamophobic becomes the object of a sterile debate, we deny real violence. (…) We cannot fight a hatred that we refuse to name”added the rector.
This drama should not become the ferment of an additional division. It must be a salutary shock, an awareness of the precious bond that unites us beyond our differences.
Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Great Mosque in Paris.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to an investigating judge for “Murder aggravated by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
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