A minute of silence will ultimately be observed in the National Assembly.
Yaël Braun-Pivet initially rejected this request from the left parties.
Aboubakar Cissé was killed on Friday April 29 in a Gard mosque, several dozen knives.
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Murder in a Gard mosque
The president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet announced this Tuesday, April 29 on the social network X that a minute of silence would be observed in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, the young faithful Malian killed of several dozen stabs at the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard) on Friday, April 25.
“No consensus” at first
“No consensus had appeared this morning at the conference of presidents” On the outfit of this minute of silence, she explained, after being heavily attacked by the left on this subject. Insoumise France (LFI) had asked the president of the Assembly that a minute of silence was observed this Tuesday at the opening of the questions to the government. The left party then suffered a refusal on the grounds that he “There is no minute of silence for individual cases”reported Aurélie found, deputy LFI (Seine-Saint-Denis).
For his part, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was “Scandalized by Yaël Braun-Pivet’s refusal to grant a minute of silence in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé”. Benjamin Lucas, spokesperson for the environmental group, also regretted the absence of this minute of silence which “would have been a good signal” towards “Our Muslim compatriots who are insulted, constantly insulted”.
Braun-Pivet denounces “the vile instrumentalization” of his death
The question was raised at the conference of presidents, but did not collect a majority of votes, according to a parliamentary source questioned by AFP, which stresses that this body decided at the end of January “To no longer make minutes of silence for individual cases”. “I have exchanged since with some group presidents. Faced with legitimate emotion and taking into account the vile instrumentalization made by some of his death, I wanted us to be able to greet his memory earlier”concluded Yaël Braun-Pivet in his publication.
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“His heart in gold”: his little brother and his relatives describe Aboubakar Cissé, murdered in a mosque in Gard
The alleged murderer of Aboubakar, a 21 -year -old Frenchman who went to the police in Tuscany, after three days in the run, denies having acted by hatred of Islam, according to his Italian lawyer. In the video he had himself made right after the murder, facing the dying victim, he welcomed his act and insulted the religion of his victim. An investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center was seized, and a judicial information for murder with premeditation and at the rate of the race or the religion was opened.
