After two days, 34-year-old Eyal Hadad did not get in touch with relatives living in Beer Sheva, they called his housemate, Mohammed Dridi. This call prompted the killer to go and turn himself in to the police.
The body of Hadad, a Jew, a native of Tunisia, was found in the forest, not far from the town in which he lived – Longperier. Dridi brought the policemen to the scene of the murder. He said that he hacked the victim with an ax, then burned his face, and threw earth over his body.
Presumably, the murder took place on August 20. And two days earlier, Dridi changed his profile picture on the social network, and also wrote: “There is no other god but Allah.”
During interrogations, Dridi claimed that Hadad, who rented an apartment with him, owed him 100 euros. But later he admitted that he killed his neighbor not at all because of money, but because he was a Jew, writes Jewish Press.
The French National Bureau for Combating Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) expressed concern that the murder did not cause a public outcry, although it was committed on the basis of anti-Semitism.