US EditionFrench mosque murder suspect acted without ideological motive, prosecutor says
- Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old Frenchman of Bosnian origin, is suspected of stabbing 22-year-old Aboubakar Cisse to death in a mosque in La Grand-Combe, France, in late April 2025.
- Prosecutor Cecile Gensac stated the suspect acted alone without ideological motives, driven by a personal, obsessive urge to kill and having considered suicide.
- Hadzovic filmed the attack, stabbed Cisse 57 times, insulted Allah, posted videos online, and later surrendered to police in Italy where he awaits extradition to France.
- French lawmakers held a minute's silence honoring Cisse, while his family lawyers seek reclassification of the murder as a terrorist attack amid public mourning and political tensions.
- The case intensified debates on religious hate in France, prompting President Macron to condemn such hate and exposing divisions over the crime's classification and government response.
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AlKhaleej TodayFrench prosecutors rule out terrorism in fatal mosque stabbing, say suspect had obsessive ‘urge to kill’
LA GRAND-COMBE (France), May 3 — French man accused of stabbing a 22-year-old Malian to death in a mosque appears to have acted alone on an obsessive “urge to kill”, a prosecutor said yesterday. The killing of Aboubakar Cisse in La Grand-Combe Friday last week prompted President Emmanuel Macron to insist there was no place for religious hate in French society. A French national of Bosnian origin suspected of stabbing Cisse 57 times and then film…
French mosque murder suspect acted without ideological motive, prosecutor says
A Frenchman accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old Malian in a mosque near Nimes last week acted alone and was driven by a violent urge rather than ideology, a prosecutor said Friday, ruling out a terrorist motive in the killing.
In France, the Collective Denial of Islamophobia Is Deadly
Last Friday, April 25, Aboubakar Cissé was stabbed to death inside a mosque in the southern French town of La Grande-Combe, where the twenty-two-year-old Malian man had lived for three years. Two videos recovered by police investigators — one from the mosque’s CCTV and the other filmed by the attacker from his own smartphone and […]
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