18-01-2015, 11:45 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Quote:.Charlie Hebdo attack: Saïd Kouachi secretly buried in unmarked grave
One of the gunmen who killed 12 people in an attack on the office of the satirical magazine has been quietly buried in an unmarked grave in the hope that it will not become a terrorist shrine
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Saïd Kouachi, who attacked the Charlie Hebdo office with his younger brother Chérif, killing 12 people, was buried after dark under tight police security in the eastern city of Reims
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By David Chazan in Paris
6:21PM GMT 17 Jan 2015
One of the terrorists who killed 17 people in this month's attacks in Paris has been buried secretly in an unmarked grave amid fears that it could become a shrine for extremists, officials said on Saturday.
Saïd Kouachi, who attacked the Charlie Hebdo office with his younger brother Chérif, killing 12 people, was buried after dark on Friday under tight police security in the eastern city of Reims.
Even his widow, Soumya, did not attend, fearing she would be followed by reporters and give away the location of the grave, according to her lawyer, Antoine Flasaquier. However, several other relatives were present.
The mayor, Arnaud Robinet, said he had initially refused a request by Kouachi's family to bury him in Reims, where he lived with his wife before he died with his brother in a shoot-out with police on January 9.
"The government reminded me of my obligation (to allow the burial) under the legislation," Mr Robinet said on Saturday, referring to a French law that grants the right to be buried in the place of last residence.
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"He was buried last night, in the most discrete, anonymous way possible," the mayor said.
He did not specify which cemetery Kouachi was buried in, and claimed not to know the location of the grave.
"Given the risk of disturbance of the peace and in order to quickly turn the page on this tragic episode, it was decided to proceed with the burial quickly," officials said in a statement.
Chérif Kouachi is also to be buried in an unmarked grave, in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers, where he lived.
Officials said they had turned down a request by his widow Izzana for both brothers to be buried together in Gennevilliers on the grounds that Saïd Kouachi had often stayed at their flat there.
The officials refused to specify when Chérif Kouachi would be buried.
It is still unclear where the third terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, will be buried. He lived in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses and had rented a flat in nearby Gentilly where weapons were found after police killed him on the same day as the Kouachi brothers.
The controversy over where to bury the terrorists echoed a row over the 2012 burial of the gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in the south of France. The then president, Nicolas Sarkozy, overruled the objections of the mayor of Toulouse to allow the burial in the city.
An additional two million copies of the latest, post-attack issue of Charlie Hebdo are being printed, taking the total number to seven million.
Previously 60,000 copies of each issue were printed, of which only half were sold.
Hundreds of thousands of copies of the magazine have been sold outside France. People eager to read it formed long queues in London and Berlin.
Online versions are being brought out in English, Arabic and Spanish.
"Given the risk of disturbance of the peace and in order to quickly turn the page on this tragic episode, it was decided to proceed with the burial quickly,"
Yes, yes, I'm sure. I'm just surprised he wasn't buried at sea in the middle of the night.
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― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,