Along the Gardon, the river that crosses the Grand-Combe (Gard), a crowd crowds to join the Khadidja mosque. It is nearly 2 p.m. on Sunday April 27, and all were gathered to pay a last tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, the young faithful 22 years old killed wildly Friday morning, several stabs, inside the mosque, by a man who filmed his act. Coming from Mali, Aboubakar Cissé had arrived a few years ago at the Grand-Combe and used to go early on Friday morning to the mosque to clean up.
In this commune of 5,000 inhabitants, located north of Alès, forty-eight hours after the facts and while the alleged perpetrator, Olivier A., born in Lyon, without a criminal record, has still not been found at the time of the rally, this attack shakes the whole population.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, went to the Alès sub-prefecture to meet with the investigators, who remain little dissertation on the current procedure. The Alès prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini, spoke of a man on Saturday with the France-Presse agency “Potentially extremely dangerous”who would have “Defining his intention to start again” in his video. The minister said he had sent a telegram “To all prefects so that all mosques in France are more protected than they are”. However, there, the presence of the police is discreet: only a few gendarmerie cars patrol.
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