On April 25, Aboubakar Cissé was murdered with several stab wounds in the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard) during his prayer by a 20-year-old Frenchman who went to a police station in Italy after a three-day flight.
“It is in an atmosphere full of emotion and meditation that the body of Aboubakar Cissé was welcomed this morning around 2 hours at the international airport President Modibo-Keïta-Sénou” From the Malian capital Bamako, specifies on Facebook a message from the Malian ministry of religious affairs. “Aboubacar Cissé leaves behind the memory of a committed and respected man. The whole country bows to his memory ”, add the ministry.
“Several authorities, relatives and family members were present to pay a final tribute to this worthy son of the country”, Add the message, stating that the Minister of Religious Affairs and his counterpart in charge of the Malians established outside were present.
-The body was then transported under escort to its family home for funeral rites, specifies the message. A religious ceremony was to take place in the morning.
The murderer denies all hatred of Islam
Olivier Hadzovic, the murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, acted “In an isolated context”, guided by a “Obsessional desire to kill” that he had largely shared on social networks, said the prosecutor of Nîmes (south of France).
In his first statements to Italian investigators, the young man recognized the murder of Aboubakar Cissé but denied having acted by hatred of Islam, indicating, according to his lawyer, “Having killed the first person he found” on his way.
