A week after the facts, the murderous course that cost Aboubakar Cissé’s life. The Public Prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, held a press conference on Friday May 2 on the murder of the 22-year-old Malian killed in the Grand-Combe Mosque (Gard) on April 25. After sending her “thoughts” to the victim and his “Sincere condolences” To her relatives, the magistrate detailed various “Advanced” of the investigation, pending the presentation of the suspect to France, which could intervene “By the end of next week”. Here is what to remember from this speaking.
A victim presented as “devoted” and “pleasant”
Arrived in France “Around possibly 2018” inasmuch as “Unaccompanied minor”, Aboubakar Cissé had done “Discreet insertion” at the Grand-Combe, with “A goal of personal life without history and deliberately distant from certain tense hands”described Cécile Gensac. The 22 -year -old was considered “someone dedicated and pleasant”slowed down by its irregular situation on the national territory, which “had prevented better social integration”according to the magistrate.
The mosque where he was killed “was a refuge allowing him to be nourished, washing and resting” and where “He notably devoted himself to maintenance tasks” et “practiced his religion”. “Nothing in the state makes it possible to assume that there had already been the course of his attacker”which was also domiciled in the town, underlined the prosecutor.
“57 plagues” found on the body
Arrived at the mosque “Around 6 am”Aboubakar Cissé was killed on April 25 to 9h30and not 8:30 am as indicated on video surveillance cameras, “Remaining at winter time”said the prosecutor of Nîmes. His attacker had entered the place of worship shortly after 8:45 am, remaining there first “Four minutes”before coming out to sit on a bench and consult his phone. Back in the prayer room, he exchanged with the young Malian “From 9:11 am to 9:14 am”. He then gave him three sets of stab wounds, the last of which he filmed and broadcast on Instagram. The autopsy made it possible to identify “57 wounds per cutting object at the origin of the death”unveiled Cécile Gensac.
The suspect had been banned from Discord and Tiktok
The video showing the body of Aboubakar Cissé was quickly reported to the gendarmerie by two young women, according to the prosecutor of Nîmes. “Two days before the facts”they had already alerted the authorities, via the Pharos platform, about “concern about the act to come”. The latter had been held by the suspect on a Discord server, who had then been “Deleted due to hate incitement”.
In the past, one of the two women had been banned from a first “Group in hand of the aggressor on the Discord network”, on which were published “Videos posted online by people scarce live”. Both “had denounced on the Pharos platform the content of the scarification videos published at that time on Tiktok, which had led to a banishment of the person concerned of the platform”. The second woman described the suspect as “A mental patient, who had extreme fantasies or words about the desires of rape of women, murder or rape of corpse, and this already a year before“, According to the magistrate.
A woman “vainly tried to dissuade” Olivier H.
After reporting the suspect on Pharos two days before the death of Aboubakar Cissé, the two friends had taken care of “Keep contact with the future attacker to try to maintain the link” And so be able to inform the authorities, according to Cécile Gensac. “Shortly before the facts”the Main witness to “vainly tempted to dissuade him from taking action “reported the magistrate. This one “had specified upstream that he was going Take it physically to someone, without specifying either who or where, and without referring to an ethnicity or a religion “. He had shown himself “Flyed with a fierce desire to kill someone and failing to commit suicide, as well as a liberating act”according to Cécile Gensac.
during its press conference, the prosecutor of Nîmes unveiled the content of a conservation with the suspect, Olivier H., the morning of the facts. “I’m going to do it today, I’m going to do it on the street”said the suspect. “Do you know him?”questions him an interlocutor. “Here? Not”he replies. “I’m going to tackle the mosque? I don’t have too much idea.” Then, once there, in front of the Khadidja mosque of the Grand-Combe, Olivier H. Loose: “It is black, I’m going to do it.”
A murderer guided by “an obsessive desire to kill”
“The springs to act of the aggressor very quickly appeared to be deeply personal: want to kill, whatever the target, and morbid fascination”reported the public prosecutor. “The facts therefore appear at this stage built around an obsessive desire to kill a person”she detailed.
“Aggression is the result of an individual who acted in an isolated context, without ideological demand or link with an organization that would disseminate an ideological claim that it intends to carry by intimidation or by terror”she stressed, justifying that the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office did not seize the investigation. The PNAT “will remain under observation throughout the course of the judicial information”however, underlined the magistrate.
The suspect changed in appearance during his flight
On the video of the crime, after insulted Allah, the assassin said to expect to be “Arrested”due to the presence of a camera in the prayer room, the public prosecutor reported. In a message written to his subscribers, he then announced “That he was going to change, cut his hair to hide the evidence and that he had to commit two new facts to then become a serial killer”according to Cécile Gensac. In the past, “He had also already mentioned that after having killed someone, or he would commit suicide, without saying how, or he would leave Europe directly”.
After leaving the bicycle mosque and changing his appearance, the suspect took the road to Hérault, then of Italy, where he ended up going to the Pistoia police station, near Florence, “deposited by a vehicle driven by a third party”. Olivier H., a 20 year old French “Until then unknown police services”should “Under any reserve” be able to be given to France “By the end of next week”advanced the magistrate.
Back in France, he will be presented to an investigating judge for hearing and a possible indictment accompanied by a placement in pre -trial detention. A “In -depth expertise” will also be carried out to assess his personality and criminal responsibility. The suspect, born in Béziers, in Hérault, within a Christian family who is not practicing in 11 children, suffers from “Mental problems related to his practice of social networks”advanced her uncle, according to Cécile Gensac. After the facts, Olivier H. himself qualified as “schizophrenic”.
