“My son is crazy. It is 100 % not normal what it did ”. BFMTV published this Friday a short sound extract from the father of Olivier H., alleged murderer of Aboubakar C. in a mosque in Gard. “We are for nothing in what our son has done,” he said.
On April 25, Olivier H. had killed a faithful in this religious enclosure of the Grand-Combe. On a video he had himself published on social networks, before it was removed, it was heard of Islamophobic remarks. His lawyer explains, however, that he refuted any racist character to his act before the Italian police officers to which. He had formed a prisoner with them on April 27 in the evening.
“I apologize for the family”
“I apologize for the family [d’Aboubakar C.] What he did, ”says his father again. According to BFMTV, Olivier H.’s family, recently installed in the Cévennes, had to move, after being threatened with reprisals.
An extradition request from Olivier H. is underway with Italian justice. According to his lawyer, he would have accepted it, which should accelerate his return to France. The prosecutor of the Nîmes Republic, Cécile Gensac, will also hold a press conference in the early evening about this case.
