Bruno Retailleau “disrespected” the victim’s family, said their lawyer

The family of Aboubakar Cissé, killed on Friday April 25, should “never go to a minister who missed respect in this way in front of all France,” said their lawyer Yassine Bouzrou on Franceinfo on Saturday May 3. The family was indeed invited to be received by the Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, Monday Place Beauvau. “I strongly advise against my clients to go to a minister who called Aboubakar Cissé as an irregular situation. I found these completely disrespectful,” said the lawyer. He did not specify if the family of the young Malian, killed 57 stabs while praying in a mosque in the Gard, was finally going to go to the ministry.

Bruno Retailleau was criticized for not having received the victim’s family quickly enough. “Aboubakar Cissé was in an irregular situation, it was difficult to find his family, partly in Africa. His parents are in two countries in black Africa, some said they were cousins ​​or uncles. But when we are Minister of the Interior, we must receive the family, the family legally proven,” said the minister on Europe 1 and Cnews on Wednesday. He went to the crime scene, 48 hours after the facts – a delay deemed too long for some.

The Cissé family also denounced the wait-and-seeing of the PNAT (national anti-terrorist prosecution), through one of its lawyers, Me Mourad Battikh, reports France 24. He assures that there is “no doubt” on the fact that murder is “a terrorist attack” and that “the Muslim community must benefit from the same treatment as any other citizen”. The Cissé family also said its intention to file a complaint with the constitution of a civil party so that the investigation is reclassified as a terrorist assassination. Friday evening, the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes therefore explained at length why the PNAT did not take up the file, while specifying that the national anti-terrorist prosecution “will remain under observation throughout the course of the judicial information”. Friday, May 2, the public prosecutor Cécile Gensac also dismissed the terrorist track, for the benefit of the “morbid fascination” of the alleged murderer of Aboubakar Cissé.

Who is the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Aboubakar Cissé?

Questions remain on the profile of Olivier Hadzovic, the individual suspected of having killed Aboubakar Cissé, a Muslim who prayed in the Mosque of Grand-Combe, in the Gard, Friday, April 25. The man, quickly identified thanks to the video surveillance and a video he himself filmed after the murder, was arrested and imprisoned after his surrender in an Italian police station, on the night of April 27 to 28 in Pistoia, in Tuscany. In front of the police, the 20 -year -old young Frenchman recognized the murder of the 22 -year -old Muslim. But he denied any racist or Islamophobic character in his attack. What question the motivations of his act, but also on his mental health.

According to the profile drawn up by the investigators, Olivier Hadzovic was born in Lyon in a Roma family of Bosnian origin, with which he had been installed in the Gard for two years. He was unknown to the police and justice services before the attack perpetrated in the Grand-Combe Mosque. The rare testimonies of the suspect’s relatives described a person who had contained himself on himself, away from the world. “My son is crazy,” said the suspect’s father in a registration sent to BFMTV this Friday, May 2, a week after the facts. According to apologies to the family of Aboubakar Cissé, the father recognized the responsibility of his son: “It is 100% not normal what he did. I apologize for the family of what he did. He is assuming what he did.”

Does the suspect suffer from “mental problems”?

Did Olivier Hadzovic’s father wanted to say that his son literally suffers from mental disorders or was it a way of qualifying and denouncing the murder recognized by the suspect? Man has given no details on the suspect’s psychological profile. For the time being, the elements of the investigation simply suggest marginalization of the suspect during the months preceding the attack. “He was all the time alone, he did not speak to anyone. He had practically withdrew from the world,” reported his Italian lawyer, Me Giovanni Battista Salvietti, on franceinfo Monday, April 28, citing the aunt of the suspect who led him to the police station. Sources close to the investigation mentioned by The Parisian Add that the suspect is “isolated socially, unemployed, hanging on the video games to which he devoted most of his time” and saw RSA allowances. The lawyer himself asked himself the question of psychological disorders by evoking a possible murderous madness of his client: “In my opinion, he has mental problems. He speaks very little, he is very silent, very taciturn. It is difficult to speak with him.”

During his press conference on Friday evening, the Public Prosecutor of Nîmes said that “in -depth expertise in his personality and his criminal responsibility” will be carried out during the investigation. She said that the young man born October 19, 2004 was a “non -practicing Christian” and was “very active on social networks”. At this stage, however, she said, the national anti-terrorist prosecution did not grasp the case because the murder seems to have been committed by an individual “isolated, without ideological demand or link with an organization that would disseminate an ideological claim which it would intend to carry by intimidation or terror”. “The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal: want to kill, whatever the target, and morbid fascination,” she said.

The suspect extradited next week

Placed in police custody by Italian police, the suspect Olivier Hadzovic will be extradited to France “by the end of next week,” the public prosecutor of Nîmes said on Friday evening. He “agreed to be given to France because he wants to go home,” said his lawyer. Until then, it could be transferred to a prison with more security in anticipation of possible reprisals of other Muslim detainees. Back in France, the suspect risks being indicted in the context of the investigation opened by the Nîmes prosecutor’s office for murder.

During his first hearings by Italian police, the suspect admitted to having killed Aboubakar Cissé, but denied having acted by Islamophobia. His lawyer assures that he “killed the first person he found on his way”. “The fact that the victim was Muslim was a coincidence,” added the council. A declaration of which the investigators doubt with regard to the remarks made by the suspect in a video filmed after the murder and in which Olivier Hadzovic profer insults with regard to Islam: “I did it […] Allah shitty [sic].”

Still in police custody, Olivier Hadzovic told the police that he was led by a morbid drive as indicated by his Italian lawyer on franceinfo : “He says he got up with the conviction that he had to kill someone.” A momentum expressed by the suspect in the video he turned in front of the victim’s body. He issues “the wish to become a serial killer” by killing “two others” people according to the transcription made by the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. These remarks led the Public Prosecutor of Alès to describe the suspect as “potentially very dangerous” during his run. Sources close to the investigation, cited by The Parisiansaid they had found messages posted by the suspect expressing “desire to rape or scarify corpses”. Investigators, however, found no publication of a racist or hateful character against Muslims.