“These minutes of silence, I have the feeling that they are extricated in forceps,” said the lawyer for the family of Aboubakar Cissé

Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the family of this young Malian killed in a mosque in the Gard, also denounces a crime “particularly unbearable by the cowardice of the gesture and by frantic violence”.

“These minutes of silence, I have the feeling that they are extricated in forceps“, was outraged on Franceinfo, Thursday, May 1, Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the family of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22 -year -old Malian, killed dozens of knives in a Gard mosque on Friday, April 25.judgmentThe minute of silence observed in the National Assembly on Tuesday, and the “moment of meditation“From the Senate on Wednesday. Judicial information is open to the Criminal Pole of Nîmes, for murder with premeditation and due to the race or religion.

“These minutes of silence are necessary, well received, but they are a little late“He regrets.”We had to fight for this file to be recognized at the height of the ignominy of the act which was committed“Recalls the lawyer for the family of Aboubakar Cissé.

“We are fighting so that there is a national unit around a terrorist act, around a 22 -year -old young man who was loosely hit with more than 57 stabs”

Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the family of Aboubakar Cissé

in franceinfo

“I have been a penalty for almost ten years now. I saw hundreds of murders in my career. This is particularly unbearable by the cowardice of the gesture and by frantic violence, with for several minutes, stabs by tens … It is unbearable.“

According to Mourad Battikh, there was a desire, on the part of certain policies, to minimize the incident, based on erroneous information, relayed by certain media, which spoke of a brawl between two faithful of the mosque. “”In the current, global and general climate of Islamophobia, it probably does not help political agendas to explain that Muslims are also victims of terrorist acts. It swears with the score that is played at the moment“.

The main suspect, Olivier Hadzovic, denies the Islamophobic character of his act. He claims to have not precisely targeted a Muslim but “The first person he met“. A thesis that does not pass, for the lawyer for the family of Aboubakar Cissé, who quips:”You go through it perfectly by chance. You stop in a perfectly random mosque. You enter this perfectly random mosque. You chat with this perfectly random individual, you make him bow down perfectly at random. You have a bayonet on you that you go out while it is on the ground. And while he can neither answer nor see the stabs perfectly at random“. He concludes: “More seriously, this act is anything but the fruit of chance. It is a premeditated act. It is an act that he had planned“.