ALGECIRAS, Jan 27 — The city of Algeciras was united in mourning Thursday a day after a machete-wielding Moroccan stormed two churches, killing a verger and seriously wounding a...
ALGECIRAS, Jan 27 — The city of Algeciras was united in mourning Thursday a day after a machete-wielding Moroccan stormed two churches, killing a verger and seriously wounding a priest in the multicultural southern Spanish port.
“We have lived here for years and we have always been very welcomed,” said Nawal Montaguikie, a Moroccan woman in her 40s who remembered Valencia as “a gentle person”.“We condemn this man and what he’s done. I hope he rots in jail.” Many in the crowd were visibly moved, among them family members, police officers, town council employees and several veiled women, who couldn’t hold back their tears.
The suspect, seen in police footage with a beard and wearing a black, white and grey hoodie, entered the church of San Isidro armed with a machete just after 7:00pm .“Subsequently, he entered the church of Nuestra Senora de La Palma in which, after causing damage, he attacked the verger managed to get out of the church, but was caught by the attacker outside and sustained mortal injuries.”
Outside the church, mourners laid flowers and lit candles in memory of a man who was a well-known figure within the local Catholic community.“In Algeciras, we’ve always boasted about the fact that we have people from 129 different nationalities living together in peace and harmony and we’ve never had any incident nor tension,” Mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce told TeleMadrid TV.
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