Murder in a Gard mosque: Aboubakar Cissé’s family will file a complaint for “act of terrorism”

A week for day after the death of Aboubakar Cissé, killed about forty stabs in the Mosque of the Grand-Combe (new window) Where he had come to pray, his family decided to seize justice. This Friday, May 2, Me Yassine Bouzrou and Me Mourad Battikh, lawyers for the young people of the 21 -year -old Malian, will file a complaint with the constitution of a civil party by Yoro Cissé, brother of the victim, for “act of terrorism” and more specifically for “aggravated assassination of a terrorist nature”, learned TF1info of black dresses confirming information Parisian (new window).

“This complaint will allow independent magistrates to decide on the qualification of terrorism in this file, because until now only prosecutors subject to the minister’s hierarchical power have been led to pronounce. The national anti -terrorist prosecution seems to exclude the possibility that an attack can take place in a mosque, it is scandalous”, deplore the lawyers for relatives of the victim in a joint declaration.

The PNAT did not grab

On the day of the facts, an investigation had been opened for “voluntary homicide” by the Alès prosecutor’s office. Three days later, the Nimes prosecution, which recovered the file, announced the opening of judicial information for “murder with premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”. The National Anti -terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) did not grasp the facts. An aberration for the advice of the family who return to their complaint that TF1info was able to consult on the course of the facts, recalling that the alleged author of this crime, Olivier H. soon extradited in France, filmed the scene.

Me Battikh and Bouzrou explain that on the images, Olivier H. exhibits “The bayonet with which he has just committed the facts” and while “Mr. Cissé is on the ground dying”. They also indicate that on this video, the alleged perpetrator claims his act by making the following remarks:“I did it … your Allah of M … I planted his buttocks (…) Your Allah from M … Enc …”

“Willingness to make other victims”

Lawyers also recall that “This video was published by the author of the facts on Snapchat so that it is widely broadcast on social networks” and that the author of the facts “Also manifests his desire to make other victims” Lawyers.

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“With regard to the circumstances of the facts, it is incomprehensible that the terrorist nature of this assassination was not retained in the legal qualification of the facts. This is the reason why, Mr. Yoro Cissé decided to file a complaint”, detail Me Bouzrou and Battikh pointing in particular “Rooming” of the alleged killer, and “The operating mode” selected “To terrorize people who would find his body, who would have access to the images of video surveillance.”