The prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, held a press conference on Friday May 2 at the end of the afternoon, on the assassination of Aboubakar Cissé, the 22-year-old Malian killed in the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard) on April 25. “The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal: want to kill, whatever the target, and morbid fascination”, she said. “The facts therefore appear at this stage built around an obsessive desire to kill a person”, she added. Follow our direct.
The funeral took place this Friday. “Nothing allows to suppose that he had crossed the path of his attacker”said the magistrate, aware that the young man’s funeral had taken place on Friday at the Grand-Combe. She spoke of a man “devoted” for whom the mosque was “A refuge” where he could eat, wash and rest, and where he helped cleaning.
The suspect went to Italy. On the run for almost three days, the suspect in the assassination of Aboubakar Cissé, Olivier H., went on Sunday in the evening, in Italy, to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, accompanied by a aunt and a lawyer. This 21-year-old young Frenchman, also domiciled in the town of Grand-Combe, “Consented to be given to France because he wants to return home”said his Italian lawyer on Wednesday, 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”he added.
Complaint from the family of Aboubakar Cissé. The family of Aboubakar Cissé will file a complaint with constitution of civil party for act of terrorism, learned on Thursday Franceinfo from their lawyers. In the complaint that Franceinfo was able to consult, the family lawyer finds “incomprehensible that the terrorist nature of this assassination was not retained in the legal qualification of the facts”.
Bruno Retailleau will receive the victim’s family. Bruno Retailleau will receive the family of Aboubakar Cissé on Monday, confirmed the entourage of the Minister of the Interior in Franceinfo, after information from BFMTV. The Beauvau tenant had been widely criticized by the left, during the question session of the government on Tuesday, where he had been accused of practicing a two weight on this case.
