The relatives of Aboubakar Cissé, a young man killed in a mosque in the Grand-Combe (Gard) on Friday April 25, consider that it is a terrorist act. A complaint will be filed in this direction.
The lawyers of the family of Aboubakar Cissé, killed in a mosque in the Grand-Combe (Gard), will file a complaint for assassination of a terrorist nature this Friday, May 2, learned BFMTV from a source close to the investigation, confirming information from the Parisian. They want specialized magistrates to look into the file and assess the potentially terrorist character of this assassination.
In this complaint with constitution of civil party that BFMTV was able to consult, the lawyers, Me Battikh and Me Bouzrou, recall the conditions in which the young man, of Malian origin, was murdered in a mosque “of more than forty stab wounds” by a man who did not know him.
When he knew he was filmed by video surveillance cameras, the assailant did not try to hide his act. “The operating mode of this assassination was chosen to terrorize the people who would find his body, who would have access to the images of the video surveillance and who would be informed of the circumstances,” they say.
“Terrorize the general public”
The place of crime is also likely to reveal a terrorist enterprise, according to them: “The choice to commit an assassination in a place of worship supposed to represent a place of peace for believers demonstrates that the author of the facts had, in addition to the intention of killing, an intention to disturb the public order higher by intimidating and terrorizing in particular people of Muslim religion.”
Right after the facts, the assailant made a video showing “the large bloody knife”, a crime weapon, and the young man “on the dying ground”. “In this video published on social networks, he claims his act by holding the following words ‘your allah shit … I planted his buttocks (…) your shitty allah … fucked’”, detail the lawyers.
“He also indicates considering committing other assassinations, which is likely to intimidate and terrorize the general public, and in particular the people of Muslim confession going to the mosque,” said Me Battikh and Me Bouzrou.
“With regard to the circumstances of the facts, it is incomprehensible that the terrorist character of this assassination was not retained in the legal qualification of the facts,” they write to justify this new complaint.
The suspect will be given to France
Subsequently, the magistrate who will be the recipient of this complaint on Friday, can, after analysis, either to make an order for refusal to inform, leaving the current investigation to continue at the Nîmes prosecutor’s office, or he will open a new judicial instruction for terrorist assassination and will appoint an investigating judge in Paris, specializing in anti -terrorism.
Aboubakar Cissé, a Malian in his twenties, was killed by several dozen stabs by a man while he was in a Mosque in Grand-Combe on Friday morning.
Olivier A., 21, suspected of being the author of the facts, fled after the murder. Repeated in Hérault on Sunday morning, he had escaped the authorities and had taken the direction of Italy. He finally went to a police station in Pistioa, north of Florence, Sunday evening.
Presented to a judge on Wednesday, the young man agreed to be renewed in France, where he must be indicted. His return should be possible in mid-May, according to his lawyer.
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