A delegation including members of the young man’s family, killed in a Mosque du Gard, was to meet the minister today, but the appointment was shifted due to the impediment of a close to the victim.
The meeting scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2025 did not take place. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau proposed to receive the family of Aboubakar Cissé, killed in a Mosque in Gard, and representatives of the Malian community on May 23, we learned from the enthusiasts of the Minister and 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 the tenant of Beauvau, who explains to exchange with one of the uncles of Aboubakar Cissé living in France.
“For the moment he (Bruno Retailleau, editor’s note) has not contacted the family. It seems that he is related 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, present on Monday at the Great Mosque of Paris during a religious ceremony for the deceased.
“It is an Islamophobic attack, a terrorist crime”
The vice-president of the High Council of Malians of France, Niakaté Djambéré Sega, told AFP that a delegation including family members and the Malian community had to meet the minister today, at their request but the appointment was shifted due to the impediment of a relative of the victim.
Before the burial, scheduled in Mali, the young man’s body was welcomed at 11 am at the Grand Mosque in Paris on 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 “denounced the rector of the great mosque, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, during a speaking.
“Some absences, hesitations, have left traces. When the word Islamophobic becomes the subject of a sterile debate, we deny real violence. (…) 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 ”he continued. An investigation was opened and entrusted to an investigating judge for “Murder aggravated by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
