An « obsessive desire to kill a person » – Liberation

Olivier was guided by a « Obsessional desire to kill a person ». This Friday, May 2, the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac made a stage point on the investigation concerning The death of Aboubakar Cissé, backed with dozens of stab wounds on April 25. The facts took place around 9:30 a.m., in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque in La Grand-Combe, a small Gard town of less than 5,000 inhabitants north of Alès.

Cécile Gensac notably explained why the National Anti -terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) did not grasp the case, lawyers for the Cissé family Having announced to several media their intention to file a complaint with constitution of civil party this Friday For the investigation to be reclassified as a terrorist assassination. But for the moment, only an investigation for assassination, especially due to religion, was opened on Monday by the Nîmes prosecutor’s office.

She describes a murderer who acted « In an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization that would disseminate an ideological claim that it would intend to carry by intimidation or terror » and having a « Morbid fascination »a « Want to kill whatever the target ». According to the prosecutor, the non-saisine of the PNAT should not be seen as « A relativization of facts » and the latter « Remains in observation on the case ». Nothing allows to explain why « He enters this mosque » And attacks this person specifies, she said.

She then detailed the course of the facts. Olivier is spotted by surveillance videos passing by bicycle in front of the mosque without stopping at 8:45 am. He is not known to the faithful of the establishment. He then turns around, goes into the establishment and came out four minutes later. He then sits on a bench and takes out his laptop.

He then joined the mosque again and briefly traded with Aboubakar Cissé. When he leans to pray, the young man takes out a blade of ten centimeters and strikes him twenty times. First at the level of the neck then on the body. He moves away, returns to the scene and strikes again. He then released his mobile phone and seems to be giving new blows while filming. Fifty-seven wounds, in total, were found on the body of the victim.

On the same day, the police are informed of a video produced by the aggressor circulating on a social network. Two people reported the facts. This is not their first report. They were notably members of a group managed by the attacker on the Discord network. Group they were banned after criticizing scarification videos. They had made reports on the Pharos platform due to videos posted by the author on Tiktok and comments made on Discord on a possible act.

Olivier had thus specified « Upstream that he was going to physically attack someone, without specifying either who or where, and without referring to an ethnicity or a religion, in love with a fierce desire to kill someone and failing to commit suicide, as well as a liberating act »reported Cécile Gensac, then detailing the discussion of the young man the same day on the platform.

« I’m going to do it today, I’m going to do it on the street »said the future murderer, Friday, April 25 in the morning. « Do you know him? » replied an interlocutor. « No », he replied. « I’m going to attack the mosque? » I don’t have too much idea. «  Then, once there, in front of the Khadidja mosque of the Grand-Combe, he lets go: « He’s black (about his future victim, editor’s note), I will do it ”. 20 years old, of French nationality and born in Béziers, Olivier is the son of a living couple with eleven children. He finally went to a police station on Sunday evening in Tuscany. It will be given to the French authorities in mid-May and may then be indicted. « An in -depth examination of his personality » will have to be carried out, completed Cécile Gensac.

Politically, after an imbroglio Around the reason for the absence of a visit to the Ministry of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, to the family of Aboubakar Cissé, the latter will be well received in Place Beauvau on Monday May 5. The excitement is great in the Muslim community. A week after the death of the 22-year-old Malian, mosques in France organized a Salat al-Ghaib-funeral prayer without body-on the sidelines of their traditional Friday prayers. At the Mosque de la Grand-Combe (Gard), a mortuary prayer was organized in front of his coffin. About 700 people were present. The body of the deceased must be welcomed at the Great Mosque of Paris on Monday at 11 am, where a prayer and a religious meditation will be organized, the rector announced on Friday. He calls « The set of faithful, men and women, to join this farewell prayer in dignity, unity and faith ». He will then be repatriated to Mali on a date not yet specified, in the locality of Yaguiné, in the heart of the Kayes region, according to a member of the High Council of Malians of France.