A minute of silence will take place in the assembly this Tuesday – Liberation
There « memory » of Aboubakar Cissé will be praised in the Assembly. The president of the lower house, Yaël Braun-Pivet, announced on x that a tribute will be paid this Tuesday, April 29, in the hemicycle at Young man killed Friday in a Gard mosque Several dozen stab wounds. The suspect of the assassination was returned to the police in Italy Sunday evening.
« I decided that a minute of silence was observed in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, whose cowardly murder in a mosque in the Gard has turned the countryexplains Yaël Braun-Pivet. No consensus appeared this morning at the conference of presidents. I have exchanged since with some group presidents. Faced with legitimate emotion and given the vile instrumentalization made by some of his death, I wanted us to be able to salute his memory earlier. Soberly and with dignity. «
The left had insurgent in the morning against the absence of a minute of silence in the assembly following this crime symbolizing a rise of Islamophobic acts. Insoumise France had notably claimed that it be observed at the opening of the questions to the government. But the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon assured having suffered a refusal of … Yaël Braun-Pivet. The latter would have explained to them that he « There is no minute of silence for individual cases »reported Aurélie found, deputy LFI (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, also said about X « Scandalized by Yaël Braun-Pivet’s refusal to grant a minute of silence in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé ». Like Benjamin Lucas, the spokesperson for the environmental group, who had also regretted the absence of this minute of silence, or Stéphane little, the leader of the communist group in the Assembly. The president has apparently changed her mind.
All left-wing groups will ask a question to the government on the murder of Aboubakar on Tuesday afternoon Cissé. Several left -wing leaders gathered around members of the family of Aboubakar Cissé this Tuesday morning in the Assembly.
Update at 2:55 p.m. with more context.
