Cécile Gensac, the prosecutor of Nîmes, spoke on the evening of Friday May 2, 2025 about the murder perpetrated in a mosque in the Gard. Aboubakar Cissé, 22, was killed on April 25.
She spoke a week after the murder perpetrated in a Gard mosque: Cécile Gensac spoke on the evening of Friday May 2, 2025. What to remember.
“An obsessive desire to kill”
The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22-year-old Malian killed dozens of stab wounds in a mosque in the Grand-Combe, a “Act in an isolated contextwithout ideological demand or link with an organization […]. The springs to act of the aggressor are very quickly appeared to be deeply personalthe desire to kill someone, whatever the target “, against the backdrop of” morbid fascination “, said the prosecutor of Nîmes. Nothing allows for the moment to explain Why Olivier Hadzovic, a 20 -year -old Frenchman, “Enter this mosque” And attacks this specific person, insisted Cécile Gensac.
She recalled the testimony of a young woman who had reported the online content of the future murderer, where he had expressed, for a year already, “Envying of rape of women, murders or corpse rapes”. Then the magistrate detailed the messages of the murderer the same morning of the facts, Friday, April 25, on an online discussion group. He writes in particular, once there: “He is black (evoking his future victim, Editor’s note), I will do it.” Finally, just after the murder, in a video broadcast on Instagram which he filmed in front of his dying victim, to whom he carried 57 stab wounds in total, He said twice: “I did it […]your allah shitty. “
-The unrecognized terrorist qualification, but …
The first investigations paint a portrait of a young man born in the south of France in a Christian family who is not practicing 11 childrenconsumer of violent videos, Especially of people scarce live, said the magistrate. Two days before the facts, he had expressed his intention to take action, And two Internet users had made an online report. According to one of these two witnesses, the murderer has described himself as “schizophrenic” In his video just after the facts, where he adds that he must commit “two new facts to become a serial killer”.
“At this stage” therefore, The National Anti -terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has not retained the terrorist qualificationconfirmed the prosecutor of Nîmes. But that doesn’t mean “a relativization of the severity of the facts“, for which perpetuity is incurred, insisted the magistrate, according to whom the PNAT”will remain under observation“On this file. Cissé family lawyers announced earlier their intention to file a complaint for the investigation to be requalified in terrorist assassination.
“Accelerated” extradition
On the run for almost three days, the murderer went on Sunday evening in Italyat the Pistoia police station – near Florence -, accompanied by an aunt and a lawyer. Olivier Hadzovic “agreed to be given to France because he wants to go home“said his Italian lawyer on Wednesday, Me Giovanni Salvietti:” And therefore the procedure accelerated extradition has been set up, which will allow Olivier to be able to return to France around mid-May “.
“My son is crazy. It’s 100 % not normal what he did. I apologize for the family … I’m sorry. He is in the process of assuming, “a man said on Friday as the suspect’s father on telepect. In his first statements to Italian investigators, The young man recognized the murder of Aboubakar Cissé more denied having acted by hatred of Islamindicating, according to his lawyer, “having killed the first person he found” on his way.
