France, April 28 -- The man suspected of stabbing a worshipper at a mosque in southern France during Friday prayers has turned himself in to police in Italy. As the manhunt was underway, hundreds of people gathered to pay homage to the victim and to denounce Islamophobia.

The suspect, identified as Olivier H, "turned himself in" to a police station in Pistoia, in the region around Florence in Italy, late Sunday night, announced Abdelkrim Grini, the prosecutor of Ales in the Gard department where the murder took place.

More than 70 investigators had been mobilised to locate and arrest the suspectwho had been filmed by surveillance cameras in the prayer room of the Khadidja mosque in the small town of La Grande-Combe, where he stabbed Abo...