# Funeral held for Pengo Bossio Wangi, victim of racist attack in Paris suburb: ‘My son is not a skin color, my son is a human being’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/funeral-held-for-pengo-bossio-wangi-victim-of-racist-attack-in-paris-suburb-my-son-is-not-a-skin-color-my-son-is-a-human-being/
- Published: 2026-11-08T11:47:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T12:22:42+00:00
- Original publisher: Le Monde (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/11/08/funeral-held-for-pengo-bossio-wangi-victim-of-racist-attack-in-paris-suburb-my-son-is-not-a-skin-color-my-son-is-a-human-being_6774946_7.html
- Topics: Offbeat, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- Hundreds gathered to remember Pengo Bossio Wangi.
- His mother rejected racism and fatalism.
- Five others were injured in the attack.

## Summary

Hundreds of relatives and members of the public attended the funeral of Pengo Bossio Wangi in Guyancourt on 7 November, two weeks after he was killed in a shooting described as racist. His mother, Valérie, said her son was a human being, not a skin colour, and rejected the idea that racist violence should be accepted as inevitable.

The 26-year-old was killed in Trappes on 23 October, when a gunman targeted people of African or North African background in Trappes and nearby La Verrière. Five other passers-by were injured, including an 11-year-old girl. The ceremony was open to the public but excluded journalists and politicians; attendees expressed solidarity, fear and anger, and some linked the attack to a worsening climate around racism.

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