The individual who killed a man with a knife in a sought -after mosque; The track of an “anti -muslim act is privileged but is not the only one”

Forty-eight hours after the death of Aboubakar, a faithful Muslim stabbed with dozens of stab wounds on Friday morning in the mosque of the Grand-Combeian Municipality, his assassin, a man in his twenty years “Potentially extremely dangerous”was still on the run in the afternoon, Sunday April 27.

Emmanuel Macron assured, Sunday, that “Racism and hatred due to religion will never have their place in France”. “Freedom of worship is intangible”insisted the head of state on the social network X. He also sent “The support of the nation” to the victim’s family and “To our compatriots of Muslim confession”.

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, went to Alès on Sunday afternoon, in particular to meet the local elected officials and the president of the Departmental Council for Muslim worship. “I would like to say to the community of our French Muslims compatriots that being French, being a member of the national community is not a question of skin color, it is not a question of religion, it is not a question of social condition. We are French, a point that’s all. I would like to really tell them the most total solidarity of the whole government ”notably said the minister.

Open for homicide on Friday, the investigation has been conducted since Saturday for assassination, that is murder with premeditation, said the public prosecutor of Alès, Abdelkrim Grini. “The alleged perpetrator has been formally identified. We are now working to try to challenge it on time (…) the fastest possible “he insisted on Sunday.

“The track of an anti -Muslim act is privileged but is not the only one”he explained. “Certain elements might suggest that this mobile may not have been the first mobile (…) or the only mobile “added the prosecutor, who spoke before the sub-prefecture of Alès after the intervention of Mr. Retailleau. The minister said he had “Mobilized more than 70 investigators”from Montpellier, Nîmes, Paris and other French territories.

The suspect’s brother’s brother was lifted at the end of the afternoon on Saturday, no charge having been retained against him, said Abdelkrim Grini. A white march took place from 2:30 p.m., between the mosque and the town hall of this small town of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès, in tribute to the victim.

No legal history

The elements officially communicated on the alleged murderer are for the moment few: born in Lyon in 2004, “Olivier” is a man of French nationality, from a Bosnian family, part of which lies in the Gard. Without any judicial history, he would be unemployed.

For Mr. Grini, he is “Potentially extremely dangerous” and it is “Primordial” to challenge him before he made new victims. In “The offended remarks” that the young man is in the video he himself filmed on Friday just after his assault, facing his dying victim, he seems, in fact, “Demonstrate your intention to start again”said on Saturday evening the magistrate at the France-Presse agency. In the same video, the murderer was understood to congratulate himself on his act and insult the religion of his victim.

“Islamophobia kills. All those who contribute to it are guilty ”reacted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of rebellious France, of which many members, like Eric Coquerel or Rima Hassan, relayed the call to a rally scheduled for Sunday at 6 p.m. Place de la République in Paris against “Islamophobia” And in tribute to the victim.

The Ecologists’ chef, Marine Tondelier, also called to join this rally, which will be punctuated by a minute of silence in memory of the victim, a young man in his twenties. Aboubakar, installed in La Grand-Combe for a few years, had come as every week to clean up in the mosque before Friday prayer, when he was attacked.

The French Council for Muslim worship (CFCM), ex-representation of Islam in France, said “Horrified” by this “Antimusulman terrorist attack” and calls Muslims from France to “Extreme vigilance”according to a press release. The CFCM, which castigates “The dramatic consequences of trivialization and media coverage of anti -muslim hatred”recommends that the faithful not be alone or isolated in mosques. He also calls the public authorities to “Immediately trigger a reinforced national protection plan for Muslim places of worship”.

“There is little doubt that its author was motivated by the hatred of Muslims in the face of the latest revealed information”, assured the great mosque of Paris on X. This asks the authorities to let the public know if the terrorist track is privileged: “We must consider the dimension and gravity of such an act, and act for the security of all”she added.

“The assassination of a faithful in a mosque is an ignoble crime which must revolve the hearts of all French people”also reacted the representative council of Jewish institutions in France. The national delegate of the Conference of Bishops of France for relations with Muslims, Jean-François Bour, said on X condemn “Firmly assassination”. “A firm response to anti -muslim hatred is urgent! »»he insisted.