A man suspected of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque in southern France and then filming his victim writhing in agony has surrendered to police in Italy, French and Italian authorities said on Monday.

The killing of Aboubakar Cisse on Friday in a French village caused shock, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to say there was no place for religious hate in French society and Prime Minister Francois Bayrou to denounce an "Islamophobic" crime.

Italian police named the suspect as Oliver Hadzovic, aged 21, while French prosecutors identified him as Olivier A.

The alleged murderer, a French national born in Lyon, "surrendered himself" to a police station in Pistoia northwest of Florence on Sunday, Abdelkrim Grini, the prosecutor of the southern French city of Ales, told AFP.

He said he was "the perpetrator of the murder of a Muslim worshipper", Italian police said in a statement.

The man, who is from a Bosnian family, went to the police station in Pistoia on Sunday evening "accompanied by a lawyer and a close relative living in the town", said the Italian police.

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