The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, the 22-year-old Malian murdered in the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard), acted “In an isolated context”guided by “Very personal springs”namely a “Obsessional desire to kill a person”according to the prosecutor of Nîmes.
“The facts appear at this stage built around the obsessive desire to kill a person”of a “Want to kill someone, whatever the target”on the background of « fascination morbide »declared the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, at a press conference on Friday May 2, adding that nothing allows to explain why “He enters this mosque” And attacks this precise person.
“Very quickly it appeared that the aggression was the result of an individual who acted in an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization which would disseminate an ideological claim that it would intend to carry by intimidation or terror”added the magistrate, specifying that the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) therefore had “At this stage” not retained the terrorist qualification but that it “Will remain under observation” on this sensitive file.
Concerning the murderer, who went Sunday evening to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, in Italy, and who should be transferred to France around mid-May, Ms. Gensac said that he was born on October 19, 2004 in Béziers, Hérault, within a non-practicing Christian family of 11 children.
-Already banished from social networks
According to the first elements of the investigation, Olivier Hadzovic, therefore aged 20, who lived in the Grand-Combe, had expressed a very short time before on social networks, in particular via the Discord platform, of his intention to “Violate women, to kill”. Banted from the network, he returned to new profiles.
According to a young woman who had reported her recent posts, he had clarified “Upstream that he was going to physically attack someone, without specifying either who or where, and without referring to an ethnicity or a religion, in love with a fierce desire to kill someone and failing to commit suicide, as well as a liberating act”reported Ms. Gensac, then detailing the discussion of the young man the same day on the platform.
“I’m going to do it today, I’m going to do it on the street”said the future murderer, Friday, April 25 in the morning. “Do you know him?” »»replied an interlocutor. « Non » he replied. “I’m going to attack the mosque?” I don’t have too much idea “. Then, once there, in front of the Khadidja mosque of the Grand-Combe, he lets go: “He’s black (Editor’s note: evoking his future victim), I will do it”.
Just after the murder, in a video he filmed in front of the dying victim, to whom he wore 57 stabs in total, he said twice: “I did it (…), your allah shit”. Then he continues and says that he must commit “Two new facts to become a serial killer”.
