Overview

• A worshipper in a mosque in La Grand-Combe, southern France, was fatally stabbed up to 50 times by an attacker on Friday, April 25, 2025.
• The attacker filmed the victim while shouting Islamophobic slurs and sent the video to a contact, who briefly published it online before deleting it.
• French Prime Minister François Bayrou called the killing an 'Islamophobic atrocity' and vowed to mobilize all state resources to apprehend and punish the suspect.
• Prosecutors, led by Abdelkrim Grini, are actively investigating the case, with the Anti-Terror Prosecutor’s Office evaluating whether to take over the investigation.
• The victim, a regular attendee of the mosque, was discovered by other worshippers arriving for Friday prayers; the attacker had not been seen at the mosque before.