Suspected the killer to the victim in the French mosque: « shit-allh »
It was at half past nine in the morning last Friday that the 23-year-old Malian citizen Aboubakar Cissé was stabbed to death in a mosque in the small town of Grand-Combe in southern France.
He was then alone with the suspected offender. According to the French police, who have access to films from surveillance cameras, the perpetrator must have claimed that he wanted to learn more about Islam and asked Aboubakar Cissé to show how to pray.
When Cissé sank down on his knees, he suddenly was subjected to a frantic violence. Between 40 and 50 stab hugs hit him in a short time. The suspected perpetrator filmed parts of the attack, and several French media that have access to the film state that he said, among other things, to the victim on the floor: « I have done it » and « your shit-allh ».
He must also have expressed a desire to become a serial killer.
At 23 o’clock on Sunday, the man-sided man went into a police station near Florence in Italy and surrendered to the police. He was born in 2004 in Lyon, French citizen and has parents originating in Bosnia. He is not known by the police before.
The murder is being investigated as a suspected hate crime, but the French police had not decided at lunchtime on Monday whether it should be classified as a terrorist crime. It upsets parts of the left opposition, which accuses the middle -right government of reacting too slowly, and of having underpin Islamophobia and stigmatizing notions of Muslims.
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau dismisses this, and instead accuses the left of engaging in a shameful political exploitation of the crime. He has given orders to reinforce police protection at mosques.
The knife act shakes the great Muslim minority in France, where many are convinced that the attack was motivated by the victim’s religion.
« As we see it, Aboubakar fell victim to a terrorist attack, » Aboubakar Cissé’s cousin Ibrahim Cissé told Le Parisien.
President Emmanuel Macron writes in a statement that « racism and religious hatred will never be given a place in France ».
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