Assassination of Aboubakar Cissé in a mosque in Gard: a minute of silence will be held in the Assembly this Tuesday

The "memory" of Aboubakar Cissé will be honored in the National 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 chamber to the young man killed Friday in a mosque in the Gard region with dozens of stab wounds. The suspect in the murder surrendered to police in Italy on Sunday evening.

"I have decided to observe a minute of silence in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, whose cowardly assassination in a mosque in the Gard region shocked the country ," explains Yaël Braun-Pivet. "No consensus emerged this morning at the conference of presidents. I have since spoken with some group presidents. Faced with the legitimate emotion and given the despicable exploitation of his death by some, I hoped that we could pay tribute to his memory later. Soberly and with dignity."

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