Bodies piled for weeks by the morgue. Muslims find no space to bury the corona’s dead in French cemeteries

The French website of 20 Menot said that it is terrible that the bodies of Muslim dead people for three weeks in the Rongy morgue are waiting to find a place for burial, which means that there is a glaring lack in this section that pushed families and societies to resort to the authorities and the justice system to solve this dilemma.

The website pointed out that the shortage of places for burial of Muslims has become stark in the areas most affected by the Corona epidemic, although the mayors of some of the few municipalities in Ile de France or Ho de France - for example - have expanded the squares designated for Muslims in mass graves.

"About 80% of the deceased were buried in their original countries," said the head of the French Council for Islamic Religion, Mohammed al-Moussawi, noting that only 600 of the 35,000 French cemeteries devoted spaces to Muslims, but at the same time do not allow burial towards The kiss is only for a short time.

Despite these facts, the administrative court refused an appeal to the "Tahara" association, a civil society concerned with the matter, and ruled that the issue was not proven urgent, which caused the lawyer of that association, Nabil Boudi, to go to the State Council, and he told the site that "what is behind the case is to alert the public authorities - especially the Ministry of Interior - to the situation. "

The site said that some mayors took the problem into consideration, as is the case in Dusin, where Patrice Clarke began work to expand the Islamic square in his municipality cemetery "and that may be completed within three weeks", and he said that every municipality should have a yard for the burial of Muslims , I wrote to the governor asking to force the mayors to set up Islamic burial grounds. ”

In this context, the Union of Mayors of France says that establishing a burial ground for different religions is“ not binding, ”but the 2008 circular encouraged elected officials to do so, and in fact two Muslims died in Corona. In the city of Arras in northern France, it was not allowed to bury them in a cemetery For a city.

Following this incident, the Mayor of Aras, Frederick Leturk, expanded the city's cemetery - as the newspaper says - to create a new 300-square-meter Islamic square on the municipality's land plots, and he said, "It is only natural that all their rituals related to the burial of their dead be respected."

In the Loaz region - which was one of the first epidemics of epidemics in France - Ismail Marrakchi, the imam of the Villars-Saint-Paul mosque, warned that "despite the efforts of the mayors, the few cemeteries that include an Islamic square have been nearly filled."

Marrakech called for the establishment of a cemetery for Muslims in the province, noting that "only 11 municipalities out of 679 municipalities in Luz are the ones that have an Islamic square."

The site pointed out that the rulers of some provinces intervened to ask the mayors to establish Islamic courtyards for burial, and the Governor of Lawaz confirmed that he "sent a message to the mayors to remind them of the terms of the circular of 2008", noting that "many families and representatives of the Islamic religion told him about the difficulties related to burying their dead."

The site concluded that Strasbourg City Council - which was one of the regions hardest hit by the Corona epidemic - claims that it has not faced any "problem" related to the burial, especially since the capital of Alsace is the only French city that has had a "public Islamic cemetery" since 2012, according to Local law that permits the support of religions.