Will the terrorist reason be used by justice? The lawyers of the family of Aboubakar Cissé, violently killed in a mosque in the Grand-Combe (Gard), announced to Liberty Wanting to file a complaint for terrorist murder on Friday May 2, confirming information from BFM TV and Parisian. Since the death of the 22 -year -old Malian, his relatives have asked that the investigations be entrusted to the National Anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT). But for the moment, only an investigation for assassination, especially due to religion, was opened on Monday by the Nîmes prosecutor’s office.
“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”underline Mourad Battikh and Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyers of the family, with Liberty. Before adding: “The PNAT seems to exclude the possibility that an attack can take place in a mosque, it is scandalous”.
The drama, which occurred on Friday April 25, sparked the stir within the Muslim community as well as part of the political class. As he prayed, Aboubakar Cissé received dozens of stab wounds. “I did it … your allah shitty … I planted my buttocks”said the suspect to his victim, in a video he turned at the time of the facts and then published on Snapchat. Arrested in Italy, the latter agreed on Wednesday to be given to France. He always denies having acted by hatred of Islam.
In the complaint with the constitution of civil party addressed to the dean of the investigating judges of Paris, Mourad Battikh and Yassine Bouzrou believe that “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 video surveillance and who would be informed of the circumstances”they write in the document consulted by Libération.
In addition, they specify that the place of murder, a place of worship, underlines a «intention» from the assailant “To disturb more public order by intimidating and terrorizing in particular people of Muslim religion”. Finally, the video filmed and then broadcast by the suspect “Demonstrates” according to them “His sole proprietorship to terrorize as many people as possible”. And all the more so since, they report, the man threatened to commit other similar acts.
