more than 2,800 people gathered for Philippine’s funeral, in “respect”

A week after Philippine’s murder, time for tribute and contemplation. The funeral of the 19-year-old young woman, killed as she left her university in Paris Dauphine, took place on Friday September 27 at the Saint-Louis cathedral in Versailles, in the southwest of Paris. The main suspect, a Moroccan national under OQTF, is still in Switzerland awaiting extradition to France. This tragedy, which aroused emotion throughout the country, pushed many citizens to come and attend the ceremony.

The rain did not discourage the approximately 2,800 people who came to pay their last respects to the young woman. The crowd spills out onto the church square with many young people, her childhood friends from Philippine, her classmates from Dauphine where she studied. Many scouts are also present, like Mathieu who shared eight years of scouting with Philippine. The ceremony “paid homage to Philippinehe reacts, He was a really great person.”

“The most important thing I find, in these moments, is to keep in mind our values: humanism, mutual aid, respect. We must not lose ourselves in anger and hatred. “

“We must keep these values ​​that we bring to scouting and which were said during the ceremony,” sums up the young man. This invitation to appeasement was relayed by the priest in his homily. Words also shared by Mayalene, a young woman who knew Philippine’s family. According to her, the priest’s message was “very supportive for the family and to invite that this death has meaning and is fruitful despite everything. May it support us, too, to do good around us as Philippine was able to do.”

A time of quiet contemplation, far from the calls to demonstrate from the far right for this weekend.