The funeral of former Bastia player Christopher Maboulou: continuation (and we hope) end

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The funeral of the former Bastia player which took the turn of a morbid (let’s say it) soap opera seems to have found an epilogue yesterday Tuesday January 26, 2021. Never chronicle of an announced funeral will not have been so full of twists and turns.

We remember that the burial ceremony scheduled for Monday, January 25 at the municipal cemetery of Clichy-sous-Bois had remained a dead letter. It was officially canceled for (let’s say) technical reasons (beyond the control of the funeral directors). Note that there is a strong symbolism of water in this story. (as the mother will point out to us) This Monday, flooded with water, the funeral pit was unusable. The funeral directors were forced to suspend the funeral. A situation ” unpublished “. But unofficially (from maternal parental sources) a more prosaic reason is mentioned: the administrative refusal of the town hall of Clichy – sous-Bois to authorize burial. (In terms of burial, it turns out that the mayor, the city’s first citizen, has a say in the authorization to bury a body in his town. Editor’s note)

Born in Montfermeil, deceased in the same city, Christopher Maboulou should have been buried in his town of birth. However, in this sad soap opera, it was without taking into account the Muslim lobby of the city of Montfermeil. Converted to Islam, late, Christopher Maboulou should, for the Muslim community, be buried according to the Islamic rite. And the approved place for this burial happened to be the Muslim square of the cemetery of the adjoining town of Clichy-sous-Bois, which was not, by the way, to the taste of maternal parents claiming to be of the faith Catholic. A real war of religions that was thought to be over since the end of the Crusades. The rest we know. On Monday January 25, 2021, the planned date of the funeral, strange circumstances (which some put on the magico-religious account) prevented the normal course of the funeral.

This morning, Wednesday January 27, 2021, we received a terse SMS from the mother: ” He was buried yesterday in Tremblay “. Tremblay is a town far from Montfermeil on the way to Roissy. Hence the mother’s questions, legitimate, iconoclastic: why over there, a town of which he was not a national? And why only today when the person has died since January 10, 2021? Why the niet of Clichy sous Bois when a certain My Jewelry had praised the economic merits of respecting the Muslim wish not to bury in Montfermeil. What deal was made between the mayor and the Muslims to dissuade them from using the Clichy / Bois cemetery? Why was there never an autopsy? etc. etc.

Family torn apart

In short, Christopher Maboulou was finally entitled to eternal rest. It was starting to do too well, it was starting to last too long.

Nevertheless he left, leaving behind a torn family. Very close to his mother during his lifetime, he was buried without her presence. The people who like the shortcuts put the vicissitudes which enamelled the funeral on the account of ” sulking » post mortem of the deceased. A kind of anger from beyond the grave because his mother-darling was banned from a funeral ceremony by the paternal party made up of a coalition where we find sisters, brothers and father, all, either Islamist sympathizers, or converts to Islam at the eleventh hour. All except Jojo, the other older brother, remained faithful to his mother.

« I particularly blame his father »Confesses the mother, Bernadette Tsota. According to her, the father had already symbolically sacrificed his son during a stay in the Congo where the former Bastia player was to go and play for the national team. Besides, he was put on the reserve bank. He was not given the opportunity to play against the DRC, at the Alphonse Massamba-Débat stadium. The match was played in a downpour. (The symbolism of water mentioned above) ” My son used to systematically score a goal when he played for the first time in a team Said proud mother. Score of the match: a goal everywhere.

As if there was eel under the rock, observers wondered why the meeting was scheduled at Massamba-Débat instead of Kintélé at the new Concorde Stadium. Another of these shenanigans of which the Congolese leaders have the secret. If it had to be done again, swears the mother, I will never have allowed my son, of French nationality, to play in the jersey of his mother’s country of birth.

« His father mystically just brought his son’s shell back to France. The soul had remained in the Congo where it was sold. It was in 2018 »Analyzes the mother. Understand who can.

Perspectives

A march will be organized on February 7, 2021 in Montfermeil, at the initiative of the mother. It will take place where he fell, at Les Bosquets. Each will come with a rose.

A mass was said at St-Pierre Claver de Bacongo. Another will be said 17 km from Brazzaville at the Church of St. Charles Luanga. ” Where was my mother born Said the mother.

Solidarity

Finally, to note: the solidarity of Christopher’s sports friends. ” They came to see me from Châteauroux and Belgium. They had a generous gesture and assured me of their attention Added the mother.

GD Bimbou

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