Sunday, April 27, Place de la République in Paris, between onlookers and scooters, demonstrators meet across the excessive bronze statue of Marianne, image of the French motto “Liberté, Equality, Fraternité”. The little crowd responded to the decision of a number of organizations, together with SOS Racisme, the League for Human Rights, or the National Observatory of the Far Right, chaired by the “rebellious” deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes, who invited a gathering in reminiscence of Aboubakar Cissé, this 23-year-old Muslim killed two days earlier within the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard).
Like the chief of rebellious France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the president of Sos Racisme, Dominique Sopo, had come to precise his solidarity with regard to the sufferer and the Muslim group. But he was additionally apostrophed by a handful of demonstrators: “You don’t use the term Islamophobia!” »»they reproached him, fairly upset.
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