Murder of Aboubakar Cissé in a Gard mosque: the alleged killer would be imprisoned in Perpignan

The imposing security system did not go unnoticed this Friday in Perpignan. A procession of raid and police cars have escorted a penitentiary convoy from the A9 toll at Perpignan prison, securing the access ring road. Rare and spectacular in Catalan country. What ask many questions. At the heart of the device, according to information from the independent, Olivier Hadzovic, the man suspected of having murdered Aboubakar Cissé in a mosque in the Grande Combe, near Alès, on April 25. Delivered on Friday by the Italian authorities to France where he had fled before going, the one who has ties to Béziers was indicted for “assassination due to religion”.

In a overcrowded penitentiary center – the establishment had 768 prisoners for 529 places at the end of March 2025 – the accused should very logically be imprisoned in the isolation district.

Olivier Hadzovic was presented on Friday afternoon to an investigating judge in Nîmes. He “has not been able to make declarations” During his first hearing by the investigating judge “And will be questioned later”said the prosecutor Cécile Gensac, in a press release.

Olivier Hadzovic’s inability to express himself does not correspond to any “Holves of obstruction or subtraction” but to “an inability, at the time of talking to you, to express themselves”, explained one of his lawyers, Me Adrien Gabeaud, to journalists before the court. The lawyer said he intended to ask “A number of expertise, including medical”. The medical component is “Psychiatry, but not being an expert or a doctor, and moreover required a number of secrets, I could not go more on this question”, adding that the psychiatric dimension concerning his client “will have to be examined and confirmed”.

Aboubakar Cissé’s body was repatriated to Mali this Thursday, May 8.