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Nîmes prosecutor dismisses the terrorist track for the benefit of the author’s “morbid fascination”

The prosecutor of Nîmes Cécile Gensac at a press conference about the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, in Nîmes, on May 2, 2025. SYLVAIN THOMAS / AFP

While the controversy has continued to climb throughout the week following the assassination at the knife of Aboubakar Cissé, a young faithful Malian in prayer at the Mosque of the Grand-Combe (Gard), by Olivier H., on the morning of April 25, the prosecutor of Nîmes, who took for the first time since the facts, wanted to explain the reasons for the terrorist non-qualification facts.

According to Cécile Gensac, the 20 -year -old murderer “Act in an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization (…). The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal, the desire to kill someone, whatever the target ”on the background of « fascination morbide ». He went to the act “In an isolated context”guided by a “Obsessional desire to kill” that he had largely shared on social networks.

Nothing allows, for the moment, to explain why “He enters this mosque” And attacks this specific person, insisted the magistrate. The first investigations paint a portrait of the murderer as a young man born in Béziers, in the neighboring department of Hérault, from a Christian family not practicing for eleven children, consumer of violent videos, in particular people toar live, she said.

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