Paris - Saba:
French authorities announced Monday that the suspect in a stabbing at a mosque in France surrendered to Italian police late Sunday night.
The public prosecutor in the southeastern French city of Alès said, according to Agence France-Presse, "The suspect in the killing of young Aboubacar Cissé on Friday, April 25, inside a mosque in the Logard region of southeastern France, surrendered himself to Italian police in the city of Pistoia around 11 p.m. Sunday."
The public prosecutor said, "It is a great pleasure for me as a prosecutor. Given the effectiveness of the measures put in place, the suspect saw no other option but to surrender, and this was the best step he could have taken."
Grini added, "The official information released about the suspect, who filmed the murder himself, was scant. He is a young man named Olivier A., from a Bosnian family, unemployed, and has family connections in the Logard region." "This person remained under the radar of the justice system and the police, and had not attracted any attention before this tragic incident," Abdelkrim Gueni continued.
A white march took place in the town of La Grande-Combe on Sunday in memory of the victim, Aboubacar Cissé, a young Malian man in his twenties. More than a thousand people participated between the Khadija Mosque, where the incident occurred, and the town hall of this small town of 5,000 people north of Alès.
Hundreds of people also gathered late in the evening in Paris, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the France Insoumise movement, who accused Interior Minister Bruno Retaylor of fostering a "climate of Islamophobia."
President Emmanuel Macron stressed that "discrimination and hatred based on religion will never have a place in France," offering "the nation's support" to the victim's family and "our Muslim compatriots."
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