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The suspect in the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, killed in a Mosque du Gard, repatriated Friday in France from Italy

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The man suspected of Aboubakar Cissé’s furniture had fled for three days before going to a police station in .

Published the 09/05/2025 11:46 Updated the 09/05/2025 12:26 Reading time: 1min

A prayer in front of the coffin of Aboubakar Cissé, on May 2, 2025, at the Mosque de la Grand-Combe, in the Gard. (Sylvain Thomas / AFP)
A in of the coffin of Aboubakar Cissé, on May 2, 2025, at the Mosque de la Grand-Combe, in the Gard. (SYLVAIN THOMAS / AFP)

The suspect of the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in a mosque in the Grand-Combe, in the Gard, on April 25, was repatriated May 9 in France from Italy, where he had gone to the authorities after a three- leak, learned Franceinfo from a source close to the file, confirming information from RTL.

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This 21 -year -old Frenchman is repatriated this Friday by car from Florence to Nîmes, indicates his lawyer in Franceinfo, Adrien Gabeaud. Upon his in France, he will be presented at the end of the afternoon to an investigating , with a view to a probable indictment for “aggravated murder by the premeditation and the circumstance of commission because of the race or the religion” and “subtraction of a criminal to research or his arrest”.

The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22 -year -old Malian, had acted “In an isolated context”guided by with “Very personal springs”namely a “Obsessive desire to kill a person”had explained during a press the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, on May 2. A version refuted by the lawyer for the of victim Yassine Bouzrou.

“The facts seem, at this stage, built around the obsessive desire to kill a person”had added the prosecutor, specifying that the National Anti -aimer -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) had “at this stage” not retained the terrorist qualification, but that it “Remote in observation” on this file.

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