The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, the 22-year-old Malian killed in the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard) on April 25, acted “In an isolated context” And “Unrelated to an ideological organization”said, Friday, May 2, the prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, justifying the non-saisie of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT). “The facts appear at this stage built around the obsessive desire to kill a person”underlined the magistrate, specifying that the PNAT remained “In observation” on this sensitive file.
Sunday, Me Mourad Battikh, one of the victim’s family lawyers, said he does “No doubt” that this murder is “A terrorist attack”. “The Muslim community must benefit from the same treatment as any other citizen”added Me Battikh.
The lawyers of the family of Aboubakar Cissé also announced to several media on Friday their intention to file a complaint with constitution of civil party so that the investigation is reclassified as a terrorist assassination.
Entrusted to an investigating judge of the Nîmes criminal center, the investigation into the case was opened on Monday for “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.
The respondent should return to France “around mid-May”
On the run for almost three days, Olivier Hadzovic, the murderer of Aboubakar Cissé-a lardé of dozens of stab wounds on April 25 around 9:30 am, in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque, in La Grand-Combe, a small Gardoise commune of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès-went on April 27 in Italy, to the police station, near Florence, accompanied by an aunt and a lawyer.
Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old 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, Me 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.
In his first statements to Italian investigators, the young man recognized the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, but denied having acted by hatred of Islam, declaring, according to his lawyer, “Having killed the first person he found” on his way. In a video he filmed just after the murder, the murderer is however understood clearly insulting the religion of his dying victim: “I did it (…)your allah shit “he repeats twice.