Suspect Behind Islamophobic Attack in French Mosque Turns Himself In to Italian Police
Reports said today that the suspect turned himself in near Florence on Sunday night.
According to Al Jazeera, the French Ministry of Interior confirmed the news, noting that the suspect, aged 21, is named Olivier A. and has no previous criminal record.
Abdelkrim Grini, the public prosecutor in Ales city, told French news outlet BFMTV that French police were tracking the suspect after he fled France.
'It was only a matter of time before we got our hands on him,' he said.
The defendant killed Aboubakar Cisse, a young Malian Muslim, stabbing him 40 to 50 times in cold blood on Friday morning inside the mosque. The suspect filmed the heinous act himself, and even expressed the desire to become a 'serial killer' in the video, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told BFMTV on Sunday.
On Sunday, Muslims and non-Muslims alike marched in memory of Cisse in the town where he was murdered.
Hundreds also rallied on Sunday in Paris to denounce the Islamophobic attack. Tags: Islam in FranceIslamophobia
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