In Good, a closing shifting tribute to a household destroyed in arson

Greater than 1,500 folks, together with many members of the French Comorian neighborhood to which the victims belonged, got here this afternoon to this ceremony organized by the town of Good on the Nikaïa Palace to say goodbye to let the seven who died. July – together with three kids.

On this auditorium that went into darkness for the occasion, just a few lights illuminated the seven coffins that had been lined up, shut by from the photographs of the victims, each positioned on in entrance of a giant wreath of white flowers on an easel.

A number of folks took turns on the microphone to pay their final respects to the seven victims: the dad and mom, three kids aged 5, 7 and 10, in addition to a youngster and a younger girl.

Within the room, many wore kofia, the normal head masking of Comorian males of the Muslim religion throughout non secular ceremonies.

Many Comorians have come by bus from a number of cities in France, together with Marseille the place a lot of nationals from these small islands within the Indian Ocean dwell. Additionally current had been residents of the favored space of ​​Moulins, the place the occasions came about, in addition to different Good residents affected by this tragedy.

Kinfolk spoke with emotion concerning the reminiscence of those superb folks who made up this household loving and affectionateneed that justice to be extreme with the gang behind the lethal fireplace.

– Like a solar –

I labored with my father on the identical building website in Monaco and, for the reason that fireplace, we now have had a nasty, very dangerous life. An arson like that, in the midst of the night time, is horriblewitness to AFP Saïd Mahmoud, 52, a resident of Good who got here to attend his tribute.

The little boy was seven years outdated in my faculty and when he got here to class, he was like sunshine, he helped everybody, it was an excellent household. Huge sister wished to be a physician or a nurse to assist folks tooassured, very moved, Félicité Galéa, 63, instructor at Flore-1 faculty, situated close to the deprived space of ​​Moulins.

In a speech, the mayor of Good Christian Estrosi (Horizons, proper) expressed his revolt and a anger in entrance of those victims brutally murdered, victims of narcoterrorism.

This tragedy hits the Comorians of Good arduous however far past that, the folks of Good are all heartbrokenhe stated, with remorse in passing the shortage of expression which, in line with him, on the nationwide stage, brought on by the demise of seven harmless folks.

On July 18, ten folks from the identical household who had been sleeping in an house on the seventh flooring of a constructing on this space on the west aspect of the town affected by the drug commerce had been woken up in the midst of the night time by a fireplace ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ had Wednesday, 11 November 2018, on a number of decrease ranges of the constructing. Seven of them didn’t survive.

Solely three males, one among them critically injured and nonetheless in hospital, escaped the flames.

Justice has already remanded three of the 5 suspects in pre-trial custody and is actively on the lookout for the opposite two. She suspects that they wished to assault a resident of the constructing the place the victims lived to take management of a close-by contract level, the members of this Comorian household posing as victims collateral when the scores had been settled.