Posted on April 28, 2025 at 11:10 am. / Modified April 28, 2025 at 14:50.
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The murder Friday April 25 in the morning of a 23-year-old Malian, Aboubakar Cissé, in a Mosque du Gard, presented initially as the stabbing attack of a faithful Muslim on another faithful Muslim, changed character in the spirit of the French political class during the weekend. Meanwhile, the content of a video published on Snapchat has been relayed where Olivier A. can be heard, the alleged assassin, also aged twenty years, insulting Islam after committing the facts. This young Frenchman of Bosnian origin, born in Lyon, who did not know his victim, finally formed a prisoner on Sunday in a police station in Italy. He was accompanied by a living parent in this Tuscan region, near Florence. According to The worldthe young suspect would also have said in his videos wanting to “become a serial killer”.
The possibility of an act of anti-Muslim terrorism in the end, an option still not completely confirmed at the time of publication of this article, then made it react. The left organized a “against Islamophobia” support rally on Sunday Place de la République in Paris. Emmanuel Macron assured that “racism and hatred because of religion will never have their place in France”. Even Jordan Bardella, the president of the national rally, tweeted his “thoughts for the man victim of a vile assassination in the Mosque of the Grand-Combe (…) targeted as Muslim according to the first elements of the investigation”.
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