A week after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22-year-old Malian killed in the Grand-Combe Mosque in the Gard, the Public Prosecutor of Nîmes will hold a press conference this Friday at 7 p.m. Friday. An investigation was opened for “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes will hold a press conference this Friday at 7 p.m. on the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, the 22-year-old Malian killed in the Grand-Combe mosque in the Gard on April 25, the Nîmes prosecutor’s office announced.
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Entrusted to an investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center, the investigation into the case was opened on Monday for “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
The main information:
- Aboubakar Cissé, a faithful Malian of the Grand-Combe Mosque in the Gard, was killed last Friday
- An investigation was opened for “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”
- The suspect, on the run in Italy, went and agreed to be extradited to France
- But it has not yet been given to French justice
- The national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office did not grasp the facts committed
57 stabbing
The prosecutor reports that Ababakar Cissé was reached 57 knives. Cécile Gensac affirms that the main suspect is a man born on October 19, 2004. He is described as a “non -practicing Christian” and “very active on social networks”.
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Not an anti-terrorist act
“The national anti-terrorist prosecution has not seized the facts committed”, announces Cécile Gensac stressing that there is “no terrorist qualification and therefore no ideological demand” with the murder of Aboubakar Cissé. “The facts revolve around an obsessive desire to kill a person,” she delivers.
The suspect who is not yet given to French justice
Cécile Gensac, prosecutor of the Narbonne Republic, reports this Friday, during the press release, that “advances took place, even if the interested party was not given to French justice”.
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“I present all our sincere condolences on my behalf,” she said on the same occasion. She describes Aboubakar Cissé as a “devoted and pleasant” person, explaining that the mosque was for him “a refuge”.
A lawyer for the victim’s family believes that murder is “a terrorist nature attack”
On Sunday, Mourad Battikh, one of the lawyers for the victim’s family, denounced the wait -and -see prosecution of the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) in the face of this file, for which he was still “in assessment on Friday, in close connection with the Nîmes prosecutor’s office”, according to a source close to the file.
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“The acts seem to be more corresponding to a murderous journey, the first passage to the act, not claimed, does not appear to be part of any ideology but is rather of the morbid fascination,” she developed. According to Me Battikh on Sunday, on the other hand, there is “no doubt” that the murder is “a terrorist attack” and “the Muslim community must benefit from the same treatment as any other citizen”.
The Cissé family lawyers announced to several media their intention to file a complaint with the constitution of civil party this Friday so that the investigation is reclassified in terrorist assassination.
The suspect, on the run in Italy, surrendered
On the run for almost three days, the murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, a lardé of dozens of stab wounds on April 25 around 9:30 am, in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque, in La Grand-Combe, a small Gardoise commune of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès, went on the evening of April 27 in Italy, at the Pistoia police station, near Florence, lawyer.
Olivier Hadzovic, a young Frenchman aged 21 also domiciled in the town of Grand-Combe, “agreed to be given to France because he wants to return home,” said his Italian lawyer on Wednesday, Me Giovanni Salvietti. “And therefore the accelerated extradition procedure has been implemented, which will allow Olivier to be able to return to France around mid-May,” he added.
In his first statements to Italian investigators, the young man recognized the murder of Aboubakar Cissé but denied having acted by hatred of Islam, indicating, according to his lawyer, “having killed the first person he found” on his way. In a video he filmed just after the murder, the murderer is however understood clearly insulting the religion of his dying victim: “I did it (…), your Merde Allah”, he repeats twice.
