The family of the alleged murderer also confides having received threats and had to leave his home, for fear of reprisals.
Aboubakar Cissé was larded with dozens of stab wounds on April 25, in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque, in La Grand-Combe, a small Gardoise town north of Alès. The alleged murderer, Olivier H., went on the evening of April 27 to Italy, near Florence, where he had fled.
An extradition in mid-May
The young Frenchman of 21, “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, Olivier H. 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 to clearly insult the religion of his dying victim: “I did it […]your allah shitty, ”he repeats twice.
