The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22 -year -old Malian killed dozens of stab wounds in a mosque in the south of France, acted “in an isolated context”, guided by an “obsessive desire to kill” which he had largely shared on social networks, according to the prosecution.
Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old Frenchman, a acted 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
said Nîmes prosecutor at a press conference on Friday.
Nothing allows for the moment to explain why He enters this mosque
And attacks this precise person, insisted Cécile Gensac, recalling the testimony of a young woman who had reported the online content of the future murderer, where he had already expressed, for a year already,desires for rape of women, murders or corpse rapes
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Aboubakar Cissé, a faithful Muslim, was killed of several dozen stabs on April 25, 2025 in the mosque of the small town of the Grand-Combe.
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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’s black [évoquant sa future victime, NDLR]I’ll 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 wore 57 stabs in total, he said twice: I did it […]your allah shitty.
Not a terrorist act at this stage
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 children, consumer of violent videos, in particular 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
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The Mosque of Grand-Combe, in the south of France.
Photo : Reuters / Manon Cruz
At this stage
So the National Anti -terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) did not retain the terrorist qualification, confirmed 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 And swin will remain under observation
on this file.
Lawyers of the Cissé family had announced earlier their intention to file a complaint for the investigation to be precisely requalified as a terrorist assassination.
My son is crazy
On the run for almost three days, the murderer went on Sunday evening to Italy, to 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 accelerated extradition procedure has been implemented, which will allow Olivier to be able to return to France around mid-May
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Flowers were deposited in front of the mosque following the attack which cost the life of a faithful of the Mosque of the Grand-Combe, a crime condemned by the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
Photo : Reuters / Manon Cruz
My son is crazy. It’s 100 % not normal what he did. I apologize for the family … I’m sorry. He is assuming.
In his first statements to Italian investigators, the young man 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.
Day of meditation
At the Khadidja mosque in Grand-Combe, in the south of France, where Aboubakar Cissé was killed, some 700 people, according to a correspondent for theAFPgathered on Friday for a mortuary prayer.
Elsewhere in France, mosques have also organized unbiked funeral prayers, salat al-ghaib
on the sidelines of their traditional Friday prayers.
Before the burial planned in Mali, the coffin will be welcomed on Monday at the Grande Mosque de Paris.
The same day, the family of Aboubakar Cissé will be received by the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, at the same time as representatives of the High Council of Malians of France.
Mr. Retailleau was widely criticized, on the left and by the victim’s family, for never having moved to the Grand-Combe and not having yet received relatives of the victim.
