“His heart in gold”: his little brother and his relatives describe Aboubakar Cissé, murdered in a mosque in Gard

The alleged assassin of Aboubakar Cissé introduced himself to the Italian authorities in Pistoia, in the center of Italy this Sunday evening, after 72 hours of hunt. Although the track favored by the investigators, remains that of an anti -Muslim crime, the latter also envisage other avenues, the suspect having declared on social networks his intention to kill without specifying the religion of the victims. On April 25, this 20 -year -old Malian suffered, in the words of the prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini, “Almost forty stab wounds” While he prayed, alone, around 8:30 a.m. at the Khadidja mosque in La Grand-Combe (Gard), a small town of 5,000 inhabitants.

The young man assiduously frequented this mosque, like his little brother, who thus reacted, at the microphone of TF1, in the report of the JT of 13 hours of this Sunday, visible in the video below: “I would never have imagined that he could be killed like that. He was nice, intelligent and he respected everyone. It’s really excruciating, I don’t know how to explain.”

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Nearly a thousand inhabitants of the town walked together, a few hours later that day, to pay tribute to it. Among them, faithful of the mosque, who have rubbed shoulders with Aboubakar Cissé for several years. “He had a golden heart. No wickedness, no violence … He never expected anything from others. When you wanted to help him, he refused, because he was like that, a humble person”described one of them, in a report by the 8 p.m. news, visible, at the top of this article. “Aboubakar is a very beautiful person, with great respect and a very big smile. What happened is not normal”added another, unable to talk about his friend in the past.

This Monday morning, the faithful of the Khadidja mosque, where they gathered again, learned the news from the end of the chase of the alleged assassin. “Security level, we feel better, but level pain, not still not. We will not be able to bring it back to us, Aboubakar. So that, the arrest does not soften it”testifies to one of them with TF1, in the video from the 1 p.m. news of this day, to be seen above. His little brother governs in turn, expressing his disbelief, then a wish: “I wonder how he was able to leave France to get to Italy. What person saw him? Who found him? We, in any case, would we like him to be judged in France.” An extradition procedure will be precisely initiated in this direction.