This Friday, May 2, a week after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, the Public Prosecutor of Nîmes held a press conference to take stock of the investigation and give details on the profile of Olivier A., the main suspect.
A week after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé at the Mosque de la Grand-Combe, in the Gard, the public prosecutor of Nîmes Cécile Gensac took stock of the investigation and also explained why the national anti-terrorist prosecution did not seize.
• A transfer of “here the end of next week”
After fled to Italy, the main suspect in the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, Olivier A., went to Italian police on Sunday evening to the Pistoia police station near Florence.
The suspect “has not yet been given to the French authorities,” said Cécile Gensac, who praised “the great efficiency and great responsiveness” of the Italian justice with which “a cooperation (…) fluid” has been put in place. The transfer should intervene “by the end of next week,” she said.
• “No terrorist qualification”
While the questions around the non-saisine have been asking for a week in the file on the part of the PNAT (national anti-terrorist prosecution), Cécile Gensac confirmed that the PNAT “did not retain a terrorist qualification and has not seized the facts committed”.
She recalled “that in no case, the referral of the PNAT would be a relativization of the gravity of the facts committed, which in the state, make the criminal life in perpetuity” to Olivier A ..
“Targeting at the rate of race and religion is not a sufficient criterion for referral to the PNAT. The potentially international nature of the case either,” said prosecutor.
The prosecutor of Nîmes describes the murder of Aboubakar Cissé as emanating from an individual “in an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization would diffuse an ideological claim”. “The springs to act of the aggressor quickly appeared to be deeply personal: want to kill, whatever the target, and morbid fascination.”
• Olivier A., a suspect “very active on social networks”
Olivier A., the main suspect, is a man born October 19, 2004. The prosecutor of Nîmes Cécile Gensac said that he is a “non -practicing Christian” and “very active on social networks”.
On social networks, the young man “had announced upstream that he was going to physically attack someone”, without specifying religion or targeted ethnicity. “I’m going to do it today, I’m going to do it in the street,” wrote Olivier A. in a discussion with a user.
• Aboubakar Cisssé, a man “devoted and pleasant”
Killed with 57 stab wounds, Aboubakar Cissé arrived in France “in the surroundings possibly around 2018” under the status of unaccompanied minor and said he was born in 2003, Cécile Gensac said. He had made a “discreet insertion” at La Grand Combe, in the Gard with the objective of a “personal life without history and voluntarily distant from certain tense hands”.
The magistrate describes him as “devoted and pleasant”, explaining that the mosque was for him “a refuge” and “he devoted himself to maintenance tasks within this establishment in which he practiced his religion”.
“Nothing, as it stands, allows us to suppose, that he had already crossed the path of his attacker” at the Mosque of the Grand-Combe, added the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes.
