Trappes attack: the funeral of Pengo Bossio Wangi will take place on Saturday

The funeral of Pengo Bossio Wangi, killed in Trappes on October 23 in the racist attack in Yvelines, will take place on Saturday in Guyancourt, his family said in a press release sent to AFP on Friday evening by their lawyer.

“We hope that this last tribute can be held in contemplation, serenity and dignity,” write the victim’s mother, Valérie Bossio, and two of her sisters Tiffany and Ritsia Brou in this document.

The public ceremony will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the landscaped cemetery of Guyancourt (Yvelines) and “is open to all those who wish to pay tribute to Pengo and spend this moment with us”. However, it is not open “to journalists” and “to women and politicians”, according to the press release. “This decision does not reflect any distrust towards them: it responds to our only wish to experience this moment of mourning far from any media exposure and any recovery, whatever it may be,” explain Valérie Bossio Wangi and her daughters.

Young French hopeful in mixed martial arts (MMA), which he practiced at the Atch Academy in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), Pengo Bossio Wangi was 26 years old. Friday October 23, Kevin T. shot and killed this young black man in Trappes and injured seven people, including an 11-year-old girl who was seriously injured in La Verrière, a neighboring town. Indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on October 29, the suspect admitted to having “specifically targeted people (...) of the Muslim or African or North African type” and chose Trappes, a city considered in his eyes as “a den of Islamists”, according to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen.

Stickers glorifying the RN were also found at his home in Plaisir (Yvelines), according to the magistrate. The Élysée has also planned to pay a national tribute to the victims of this racist attack on a date not yet defined. The father of the young man killed, Bolema Bossio Wangi, had hoped on Monday that this moment would be “an opportunity for real awareness and commitment against racism”. His lawyer, Me Zineb Alami, stressed that hatred is fueled by far-right speeches, relayed in particular by “media which offer them a permanent platform”.