The Public Prosecutor of Nîmes held a press conference this Friday, a week after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in the Gard.
She highlighted an “obsessive desire to kill a person” from the suspect.
This is the reason why the national anti -terrorist prosecution was not seized, even if it remains informed of the advances of the investigation.
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Murder in a Gard mosque
The suspect in the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in the Grande Combe mosque in the Gard was motivated by a “Want to kill whatever the target”. The Public Prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, held a press conference on Friday May 2. She returned to the motivations of the suspect who did not “Not been given to French justice”.
According to the first elements of the investigation, “The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal: want to kill, whatever the target, and morbid fascination”, said the prosecutor who said that the facts appear at this stage built around “Of an obsessive desire to kill a person”.
57 stabbing
According to the first observations, the suspect would have brought 57 knives to his victim, whom he seems to have “never crossed” previously. The crime was committed “Without ideological demand”, specifies the prosecutor, which thus explains why the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) did not grasp the case and that the “terrorist” qualification is, “at this stage”not retained. “Targeting due to race and religion is not a sufficient criterion of referral to the PNAT”, said Cécile Gensac, adding that the prosecution remained in “Observation throughout the judicial course”.
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Murder in a Gard mosque: Aboubakar Cissé’s family will file a complaint for “act of terrorism”
A response to recent criticisms when on Sunday, Mourad Battikh, one of the victim’s family lawyers, had denounced the wait -and -see prosecutor’s prosecution (PNAT) in the face of this case. He also considered that this murder was “A terrorist attack” et “The Muslim community must benefit from the same treatment as any other citizen”.
On the run for almost three days, the murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, killed Friday around 9:30 am, in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque, in La Grand-Combeoise, a small Gardoise town of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès, went Sunday evening in Italy, to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, accompanied by a aunt and a lawyer.
