The fatwa issued by in response the "Sharaa" court was very ambiguous; it maintained that a Muslim who adopts the nationality of a non-Muslim country is an apostate, but added that if he repents, even verbally, before his death, his burial in Muslim cemeteries is acceptable.[19] Learning of this maneuver, the Destourians denounced collusion between the French and the religious authorities. Manceron, therefore, informed the French minister of foreign affairs, Joseph Paul-Boncour, of his failure:[17] We had every reason to believe that the response of Sharaa would be affirmative and that it would therefore be likely to resolve this difficult issue, but some religious judges' indiscretions have caused the unrest that I point out. It is feared that, even if the legal advice is favorable, it cannot usefully serve us because the Destourians maintain that we lobbied the Sharaa and that such an opinion, not freely issued, has no value.