The murderer guided by an “obsessive desire to kill a person”

A week to the day after the death of Aboubakar Cissé, the 22-year-old Malian murdered in the mosque on April 25 at La Grand-Combe (Gard), the public prosecutor of Nîmes announced on Friday that nothing “Do not allow us to suppose that he had already met his attacker”.

“Advanceds took place” in the investigation, “even if the interested party (the alleged killer) has not yet been given to French justice”Cécile Gensac said in front of the press. Olivier Hadzovic, a young Frenchman aged 21 also domiciled in the town of La Grand-Combe, “Consented to be given to France because he wants to return home”said his Italian lawyer on Wednesday, Me Giovanni Salvietti. The man is expected to be handed over within a week, the prosecutor announced.

During the press conference, the prosecutor recalled the journey of the young faithful killed. Arrived in France in 2018 under the status of unaccompanied minor, Aboubakar Cissé arrived “With a lifestyle without history”, and was described as someone “devoted” et “pleasant”. “The mosque was a refuge, allowing it to wash and rest,” said the prosecutor. “Nothing allows to suppose that he had already met his attacker”she said.

57 wounds were noted on the victim

The prosecutor also mentioned the attitude of the national anti -terrorist prosecution in the face of this file, for which the PNAT was still “In evaluation Friday, in close connection with the Nîmes prosecutor’s office”. “Targeting for the race for religion is not a necessary referral to the PNAT. There is, at this stage, no terrorist qualification “assured the prosecutor, saying that the facts were committed “In an isolated context without ideological demand”.

“The facts appear built on an obsessive desire to kill a person, clarified the magistrate, 57 wounds having been found on the body of the victim. The PNAT will remain under observation throughout the judicial inquiry. ” Entrusted to an investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center, the investigation into the case was opened on Monday for “Murder aggravated by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.

According to the narrative of the prosecutor, Aboubakar Cissé arrived around 6 am in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque in La Grand Combe, a small Gard commune of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès, on April 25. The attacker arrived at 8:45 am by bike around the religious building. Olivier Hadzovic entered the building for four minutes. He came out of it, then returned again and released a knife at the level of the victim’s neck before asserting him “Twenty stab wounds”. “Then he moved away before throwing new stabs, before filming the victim of his victim. In total, 57 sores were noted. A video of the murder began to be broadcast on social networks ”, described the prosecutor.

“Wish of rape on women and corpse”

«A few days earlierThe attacker had been banished from a Tiktok account, and his discord deleted server. A young woman present in this group on the platform mentioned “A mental patient”who had “Wish of rape of women, murder or rape on corpses”. Two days before the facts, this young woman and a friend made a report on the Pharos platform to warn young man’s desires “To take action”.

Unknown to the police, born in an eleven children’s siblings, Olivier Hadzovic had thought of committing suicide after his act. He went to Italy on Sunday evening, to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, accompanied by an aunt and a lawyer. In front of the investigators, his brother said that he has never seen him show violence, and spoke of a remarks “hate Muslims». His uncle, he expressed doubts about the use of social networks of his nephew. The young man admitted to the authorities the murder of Aboubakar Cissé but denied having acted by hatred of Islam. Members of the family of Aboubakar Cissé will be received Monday Place Beauvau in Paris by the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, at the same time as representatives of the High Council of Malians of France