At least a thousand people gathered in Paris, Thursday, May 1, to pay tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, a young Muslim killed last week in the Mosque of Grand-Combe, in the Gard. The demonstrators also wanted to denounce increasing Islamophobia in France.
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“Racism kills, no hatred against Muslims”we were able to read on signs held by demonstrators gathered at the call of SOS Racisme and the activist Assa Traoré.
Paris – demonstration in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, murdered in the Mosque de la Grand -Combe in the Gard and against Islamophobia – May 1, 2025.
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“I do not have the impression that Muslims be heard and represented in the media or in the government. If it had been a victim of another religion, another name and another culture, we would have been in support. There are two weights two measures”, Comments Yasmina, 52, civil servant, who did not wish to give his last name.
“We can still say that it was not a Muslim who was targeted but we are not going to lie there are only Muslims in France who frequent the mosques. At one point we have to put the words as we rightly do against anti -Semitism, and call it Islamophobia”, underlined Myriam, 30, dental assistant, who did not wish to give her name either.
Aboubakar Cissé, a young Malian, was larded with several dozen stabs in the mosque of the small Gardoise commune of the Grand-Combe, in Cévennes, where he had come early as every week to clean, before Friday prayer.
His assassin, a 21 -year -old Frenchman, went to the Italian police.
In the video he had himself made right after his murder, the suspect insulted the religion of his victim.
An investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center was seized and an open judicial information for murder with premeditation and at the rate of race or religion.
In addition to a white march at the Grand-Combe, a gathering in memory of the victim and against Islamophobia was already organized on Sunday in Paris and a demonstration took place Tuesday in Lyon.
