Burying a dead Muslim in Avignon, can cost up to 6,500 euros
Benyoussef Hamroun, president of the Franco-Algerian friendship and mutual aid association of Greater Avignon, was interviewed in “le call de fil du matin” on Sud Radio on October 27. “The morning call” is broadcast every day at 7.12am in the morning show hosted by Judith Beller and Patrick Roger.
In Avignon, Muslims are asked to build concrete vats to bury their dead. A standoff that does not date from yesterday with the town hall of Avignon.
Muslim square in the cemetery: “The new mayor of Avignon is acting more sly than the previous one”
“The disagreement is very simple, explains Benyoussef Hamroun, president of the Franco-Algerian friendship and mutual aid association of Greater Avignon. The previous municipality of Marie-José Roig had imposed concrete tanks to bury Muslims. We had not asked for anything, we went up to the crenel, to remove these concrete vats and have the deceased put back in the ground. We created this cemetery in 1977. At each presidential election, we get the concrete vats out. “
“The new mayor of Avignon is acting more sly than the previous one, considers Benyoussef Hamroun. It does not provide the concrete tanks but poses as burial conditions for this square, for French Muslims and Muslims in general, to make their own concrete tank, to take a thirty-year concession, to give 1,000 euros as a deposit. “
Muslim square in the cemetery: “a burial at 6,500 euros per person”
“Building a concrete tank costs around 2,500 euros, which makes a burial at around 6,500 euros per person, details the president of the Franco-Algerian friendship and mutual aid association of Grand Avignon. Traditional burial is done in the ground for Muslims. We are respectful of all faiths, but you have to know that we bury in the ground, but in hermetic coffins. “
Comment this happens in other cemeteries in France? “We had the first to create a Muslim square in 1977, recalls Benyoussef Hamroun. In all the Muslim squares, there is no more place to bury, as in Marseille. We ask that we be allowed to live instead of stigmatizing us. “
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