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The murderer of Aboubakar Cissé, who had gone to the police in Italy three days after having killed this 22-year-old Malian in the Mosque of the Grand-Combe (Gard), “is transferred” Friday in France, announced the prosecutor of Nîmes.
“The respondent in the Grand-Combe case is transferred today,” Cécile Gensac’s sentence said in a statement of Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old who acted, according to previous statements from the magistrate, due to an “obsessive desire to kill a person”.
“This morning he was given to the French authorities this morning,” his Italian lawyer confirmed to AFP. Asked about his client’s state of mind, Giovanni Salvietti added: “As usual, he speaks very little”.
Upon his arrival at the Nîmes courthouse, Olivier Hadzovic will be presented to the investigating judge in charge of the investigation for his interrogation as a first appearance, during which he could present his version of the facts.
The magistrate should in the process will indicate him of the chiefs of “aggravated murder by premeditation and at the rate of the race or the religion”. The prosecution required his placement in pre -trial detention, he will appear before a judge of liberties and detention.
-“A written press release will be made at the end of judicial diligence,” said Cécile Gensac. According to a source close to the file, this press release could be issued late Friday in the evening.
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A prayer ceremony took place on Thursday in Bamako in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, whose body was repatriated to his country of origin to be buried there, in the presence of relatives and officials who asked the French authorities that “justice leads” on this assassination.
Olivier Hadzovic has “acted in an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization (…). The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal, the desire to kill someone, whatever the target”, against the background of “morbid fascination”, said Cécile Gensac on May 2 during his only press conference on this sensitive issue.
Nothing allows for the moment to explain why “he enters this mosque” and attacks this specific person, insisted the magistrate, recalling the testimony of a young woman who had reported the online content of the future murderer, where he had expressed, for a year already, “desires of rapes of women, murders or rapes of corpse”.
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