Extradition – Olivier Hadzovic, 20, is transferred from Italy to France after admitting the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in a Mosque in Gard, which he stabbed 57 times, before denying any Islamophobic character to his act
Olivier Hadzovic “is transferred” this Friday from Italy to France on Friday, announced the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac. This 20-year-old man admitted to the Italian authorities (to which he went on April 27) the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in a Mosque in the Grand-Combe (Gard), two days earlier. After having fatally stabbed his victim 57 times, he had filmed himself by uttering insults towards the Muslim region.
In front of the police, however, he denied having chosen his victim for Islamophobic reasons. “The facts seem to be built around the obsessive desire to kill,” said the public prosecutor at a press conference, a week after this homicide.
“An individual who acted in an isolated context”
She had insisted on the absence of any claim or belonging to an ideological group: “He is an individual who acted in an isolated context, unrelated to an organization disseminating a discourse of terror. The National Anti -terrorist prosecution therefore did not retain the terrorist qualification, although it “remains under observation on this sensitive issue”.
As soon as its arrest was confirmed, France had asked its extradition to the Italian authorities. Request to which the alleged murderer had not opposed.
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