The prosecutor of the Nîmes Republic will hold a press conference this Friday at 7:00 p.m. on the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, this 22-year-old Malian killed in the Mosque of Grand-Combe (Gard) on April 25, announced the prosecution of Nîmes.
Entrusted to an investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center, the investigation into this case was opened on Monday for “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
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.
“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,” developed this source.
According to Me Battikh on Sunday, on the other hand, there is “no doubt” that this 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.
On the run for almost three days, the murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, a back of tens of stab wounds on Friday around 9:30 am, in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque, in La Grand-Combeo, a small Gardoise town of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès, went to Italy on Sunday evening, to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, accompanied by a aunt and a avocado.
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, Me Giovanni Salvietti, Wednesday: “And therefore the accelerated extradition procedure was implemented, which will allow Olivier to be able to return to France around mid-May”.
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.
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