Muslims in Vaucluse protest against having to build concrete vats to bury their dead
The Muslim community of Vaucluse is worried about a project of the town hall of Avignon. Muslim families must oBligées to build a concrete tank to be able to bury their dead in the Muslim square of the cemetery of Montfavet created in 1977. This is in any case what denounces the president of the association Franco-Algerian friendship and mutual aid of Greater Avignon Benyoussef Hamroun.
This obligation had already been imposed and then withdrawn under the mandate of the former mayoress Marie-Josée Roig nine years ago but the current town hall does not confirm that is the case today. yet “there it is worse” rebels Benyoussef Hamroun because “that at the time the town hall financed the tanks. There we require families to build them. We have no choice, it’s take it or leave it.” What “triple budget.” Benyoussef Hamroun sees this as a way ofexclude the muslim community who between his dead “to the same land.”
“The politician today does not want to appear with the Muslims” – Abdelali Laaouissi, the president of the association which manages the Mosque of Pontet
The message sent by the town hall is clear for Benyoussef Hamroun: “that means we don’t want to anymore.” So he sent a letter to the town hall of Avignon to complain about it. Letter that the Avignon city hall says it has not received. For the president of the association which manages the Pontet Mosque, Abdelali Laaouissi, this political act is not trivial in this period of presidential campaign. “Politicians today do not want to flaunt themselves with Muslims. There is nothing to be gained by that.” Abdelali Laaouissi puts himself in the place of an elected official and assumes that the politician ist “if I put in place a project favorable to the Muslim community, I risk losing more votes than winning them.”