The suspect of the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, stabbed in a mosque, was given to France by Italy

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The main suspect in the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, stabbed 57 times in a Gard mosque, was given this Friday, May 9 to France by the Italian authorities. The man, on the run for three days, had gone to a transalpine police station. “The respondent in the Grand-Combery case is transferred today”said the prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac about Olivier H., a 20 -year -old Frenchman who acted, according to previous declarations of the magistrate, due to a “Obsessional desire to kill a person”. The case has rekindled debates on Islamophobia in France.

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Under a European arrest warrant, he agreed to be given to France as part of an accelerated procedure. “This morning it was given to the French authorities” this morning “confirmed its Italian lawyer 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 justice palace, scheduled for the afternoon, Olivier H. will be presented to the investigating judge in charge of the investigation for his first interrogation within the framework of the investigation open for “Murder aggravated by premeditation and at the rate of race or religion”.

A march planned this Sunday in Paris

A ceremony took place 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 is successful”.

In France, organizations and personalities call for a walk on Sunday in Paris to denounce “The progression of Islamophobia” And pay tribute to the young man, who arrived in France around the age of 15 and who had lived for several years in precarious conditions at La Grand-Combe, where his ” kindness “ was unanimously praised.

“Everyone has to take part in combat to protect Muslims from France” facing a “Trunning of Islamophobia”assures Sofia Tizaoui, Union secretary of the Union Union Lycéenne, one of the organizations on the initiative of the mobilization.

“You have to have the courage to say things as they are”

The attitude of Bruno Retailleau since the start of the case has been strongly criticized by the left and by the relatives of Aboubakar Cissé. The Minister is reluctant to use the term Islamophobia, he who considered that “he There is an ideological connotation of the term Islamophobia very marked with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood, who means that in our ministry, we take the precaution not to use it ”. Prime Minister François Bayrou, on the contrary, defended his job from the term “Islamophobic” After the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, saying that“You have to have the courage to say things as they are”.

According to his Italian lawyer, the young man recognized the murder but denied having acted by hatred of Islam, indicating “Having killed the first person he found”. Lawyers of the Cissé family claim them, in vain until now, that the investigation be reclassified as “Terrorist assassination”.