US EditionItaly extradites mosque murder suspect to France: prosecutor
- Italy extradited Olivier Hadzovic, accused of stabbing Malian Aboubakar Cisse to death during prayers in a La Grand-Combe mosque on April 25, 2025.
- Hadzovic surrendered after three days on the run and admitted killing the first person he found, while denying motives of religious hatred according to his lawyer.
- The case has sparked debate on religious hatred in France, where authorities investigate it as murder aggravated by race or religion, though it is not treated as terrorist.
- Prosecutor Cecile Gensac said Hadzovic acted from a strong urge to kill and attempted to harm others before the stabbing, and the victim was stabbed dozens of times.
- Family lawyers seek reclassification as terrorist murder, protests are planned, and wider discussions address systemic racism and Islamophobia in French society.
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Murder inside a French mosque: not an outlier, the inevitable result of Islamophobia
The killing of Aboubakar Cisse in cold blood inside a French mosque is not an outlier. It is the result of policies and discourses that have actively furthered the dangerous securitisation of racialised people and in this particular instance Muslim and Black communities, writes Emmanuel Achiri from the European Network Against Racism.
Olivier Hadzovic had returned to the Italian authorities three days after the murder of Abubakar Cissé at the mosque of La Grand-Combe, in the Gard, on 25 April. He stabbed the faithful 57 times by saying "Your Allah of shit."
On 25 April, Aboubakar Cissé, 21, was killed in the mosque of La Grand-Combe (Gard). The suspect, Olivier H., had fled before being arrested in Italy. He was repatriated to France this Friday and then charged. - Murder in a mosque of the Gard: the suspect charged (Police, justice and other facts).
Olivier Hadzovic had returned to the Italian authorities three days after the murder of a faithful man at the mosque of La Grand-Combe, in the Gard, on 25 April.
A ceremony was held on Thursday 8th but 2025 in Bamako, Mali in tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, a young Malian killed in the mosque of La Grand-Combe (Gard), whose body was repatriated to his country of origin for burial.
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