Silent grief for 18-year-old Muslim boy shot in Munich

His parents and two siblings escorted him back from Munich to the family's home village in Rodopi, where the teenager had returned each year in the summer.
The funeral was attended by Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis, who offered his condolences to the family and also conveyed the condolences of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Parliament President Nikos Voutsis, who each sent a wreath. Three Rodopi MPs - Moustafa Moustafa, Aichan Karagiousouf and Ilhan Ahmet - also attended, as did the Maronia and Komotini Metropolitan Panteleimon, who offered his condolences to the family in a gesture signalling peaceful religious coexistence and solidarity in a multicultural area, such as Rodopi and Thrace.
The funeral was conducted by Komotini Mufti Chief Secretary, in the presence of Komotini Mufti Metso Tzemali, after which the villagers of Aratos lifted the wooden coffin wrapped int he Muslim 'kefen' and transported it to the village graveyard to be buried.