The organizers of the rally in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, if they paid tribute to those present, could not hide their disappointment by finding themselves so few, this Sunday. They were around 130 on the forecourt of Montbéliard station in the early afternoon. When 700 people gathered for a silent walk in Belfort on Friday evening. They were therefore too little, in their eyes, in view of the gravity of the facts, that is to say the murder of a Muslim in the middle of worship. “Yes, we are disappointed, it should have touched many more people,” said Orhan Ekici, president of the Departmental Committee for the Muslim worship of Doubs, before his speaking in public. And to add, to the microphone: “What have we made of our fraternity?” Where are all the others, aren’t they affected? »»
“It is not an isolated tragedy”
The text read by Orhan Ekici before the demonstrators was written by the CDCM, jointly with the Great Mosque of Belfort. “We don’t just come to cry, but to refuse indifference. It is not an isolated tragedy, it is the culmination of a deleterious climate installed, tolerated, nourished, including by the media. A trivialization of the hatred that we have denounced for too long ”. After entrusting, there too as soon as he had “never felt a tension as right now”, while he has occupied the post of president for 12 years.
Some political speeches have also been targeted. The allusions to the words of the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, were not masked: “There are words which prepare the act, which designate a victim, uninhibited, nourish the imagination of those who take action. Before Aboubakar, there were burned mosques, assaulted imams, insulted faithful, women torn from their scarf ”. And to add: “We call all the souls in love with justice to get up and no longer look away”, before demanding a “reaction from the public authorities. Not tomorrow, today, with clarity, responsibility and equity ”.
Justice, protection and recognition
Like the similar initiative made on Friday, a letter, will be sent directly to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. Baddreddine Hambli, interreligious secular referent for the CDCM of Doubs and for the Great Mosque of Belfort, read some extracts: “We do not ask for any favor or privilege, we demand justice, protection and recognition of this Islamophobia in words as in acts, securing all places of worship including mosques. We assume our share, we work for social ties, the common good in neighborhoods, schools, associations and all spaces. But we cannot carry this responsibility alone ”.
