Strasbourg. The family of the three girls who died in a fire in Brumath victim of racist comments in the hospital

An altercation occurred Wednesday morning at the new civilian hospital in Strasbourg. While members of the family of the three young victims of Brumath’s fire, including several veiled women, walked the corridors of the hospital in the direction of the morgue, one of them, who filmed the place to show the way to his loved ones, heard a man in a white coat exclaimed: “Oh Yeééé, has a mosque here or what? “Is there a concern sir?” We lost three children, how are you talking about? “Replied the author of the video, joined by phone.

This content is blocked because you have not accepted cookies and other tracers.

By clicking on “I accept”cookies and other tracers will be deposited and you can view the contents (More information).

By clicking on “I accept all cookies”you authorize cookie deposits and other tracers to storage your data on our sites and applications for customization and advertising targeting purposes.

You keep the possibility of withdrawing your consent at any time by consulting our data protection policy.
Manage my choices

I accept
I accept all cookies

“When I heard this sentence, it hit me at the heart,” he says. I am 45 years old, I grew up in suburbs, I heard a lot, but a sentence like this, at a time, never. The man, shocked and angry, is calmed by stretcher bearers who were passing by. “The hospital has nothing to do with it, they did an extraordinary job from the first to the last day. For me, the one who said it should not work in a hospital center, “he continues. Members of the Turkey Consulate were present in the Morgue.

“It was not humor. No irony. It was a provocation “

“It was not humor. No irony. It was a provocation. A clear attack addressed to mourning people because of their religion, “wrote Eyup Sahin, president of the Turkish Islamic movement Millî Görüs, on his Facebook page. “We can no longer remain silent when, even in mourning, some believe they are allowed to demean, humiliate, despise. We are Muslims, we are French and have the right to respect, especially in the face of death, ”he continues.

The video, published on social networks, was very widely shared and commented on, especially in the Turkish media, very present since the first day of the deadly fire. Turkish television was also present at the Eyyûb Sultan mosque where a funeral prayer was organized this Thursday 1^is May in tribute to the three deceased girls.

The HUS management expresses “its most sincere apologies to the family”

“It is with great sadness and deep dismay that we have read a recently put online video, in which unacceptable remarks have been pronounced,” reacts the management of the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) which “firmly condemns these words and wishes to express their most sincere excuses to the family concerned as well as to all the people who could have been injured by these words. “She indicates that an internal administrative investigation has been underway since Thursday evening to” shed light on the circumstances surrounding this incident. We will take all the necessary measures, including reporting from the public prosecutor ”.