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French Muslim leaders said that more must be done to counter Muslim hatred in France after a man was arrested because of the suspicion of stabbed a young worshiper in a mosque in a southern village.

Olivier A, 21, a French citizen born in Lyon, gave the police in Italy on Sunday after three days after three days, the French prosecutors announced on Monday morning.

He is suspected of having killed Amubakar Cissé, 22, a painter who trained in France as a carpenter and worked as a volunteer in the mosque in La Grand-Combe in southeastern France.

Olivier A is said to have entered the mosque on Friday morning and stabbed Cissé dozens of times. He is said to have sparked his victim in a pain. A man who congratulates himself can be heard in the film material, said “I did it” and scream insults about Allah.

Cissé went to the mosque alone on Friday morning to pray. His body was discovered when the worshipers later arrived for prayers in the morning.

The French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon is stirred to tears by the testimony of a Muslim woman at a rally in Paris. Photo: Apaydin Alain/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

The incident in the village in the Provincial France caused a shock and prompted President Emmanuel Macron not to give any space for religious hatred in French society and the Prime Minister François Bayrou in order to denounce an “Islamophobic” crime.

Mohammed Moussaoui, the head of the French Muslim Council, told the France-Info radio: “A vast majority of Muslims in France has the feeling that anti-Muslim hatred is not as serious as other hatred.”

He said the Muslims were concerned and concerned about the current climate and asked why an inquiry against terrorism was not opened in the case.

Abdelkrim Grini, the prosecutor in the southern city of Alès, said BFMTV on Monday that the alleged attacker had gone to an Italian police station near Florence on Sunday evening at around 11:30 p.m. (2230 BST).

He said: “We knew that he had left France … it was only a matter of time before we got him. The suspect had no choice but to hand over himself.”

Grini said that an “anti-Muslim or Islamophobic motif” was the main lead in the study, given the type of crime and the fact that a worshiper prayed in a mosque.

He said there were other elements in the study that could indicate that the suspect had a “fascination for death” and “wanted to be known as a serial killer”.

Ibrahim Cissé, the cousin of Aboubakar Cissé, said to Le Parisien on Sunday: “My cousin was targeted because he was Muslims.”

The brother of Aboubakar Cissé on a rally against Islamophobia in Paris on April 27, 2025. Photo: Teresa Suárez/EPA

He said he considered the crime as terrorism: “It was deliberately, the person came knowingly to kill someone in a mosque … For us, Aboubakar is the victim of a terrorist attack.”

The suspect’s Italian lawyer told Agence France press that his client was motivated by hatred against Islam. He had informed the investigators that he had “killed the first person he saw” and that “he didn’t say anything against Islam, mosques,” said Giovanni Salvietti.

The suspect is said to have been unemployed and lived in La Grande-Combe. Grini said: “He was someone who had remained under the radar of the judicial system and the police.”

In La Grand-Combe, more than 1,000 people gathered on Sunday in memory of the victim and drove from the Khadidja mosque, in which the jump-off took place.

Abdallah Zekri, the rector of a Nîmes mosque, denounced an Islamophobic climate in France. On Sunday, several hundred people gathered in Paris to protest against Islamophobia.

Macron wrote on social media on Sunday to support the family and “our Muslim compatriots”. He wrote on X: “Racism and hatred based on religion will never have a place in France.”

The French government has ordered the police to tighten the security in mosques across the country.

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