Yasin Kanza, the smile of the murderer who wanted to impose his radical creed with machetes

• Algeciras An 'invisible' murderer a hundred steps from the church and hidden in a patera house: this was the life of Yasin Kanza

• Investigation Yasin Kanza was pending deportation due to his irregular situation in Spain

A silent young man appeared a couple of months ago in the town of Algeciras.

He did not attract anyone's attention, he was one of many who stopped at this municipality in the

, on the way between North Africa and some destination further north, passing the Pyrenees, in many cases.

In a population with about

, Yasin Kanza did not arouse suspicion.

Even more so being, as he is, a young man with childish features and a lighter complexion than many of his compatriots and who did not associate with almost anyone beyond the walls of the house where he found refuge.

He did not even establish ties of any kind with the large Muslim community.

He did not even seek shelter in the Muslim neighborhood par excellence of Algeciras,

, but went to live higher up, in a more central area and close to

, the heart of the city.

Kanza was born on October 6, 1997 in Morocco, in the north, in the

region , where his family continues to live and where he spent most of his life until he decided to emigrate to Spain.

Like so many, he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and, like so many, settled in Algeciras.

Without documentation, pending an expulsion order that had not been executed, he made a living as best he could and ate what he could afford.

Some preserves, bread, some soft drinks... Some remains of the last meal were visible yesterday in the house that he shared with three other young Moroccans on

, just halfway between the

and the

, the two stops on his macabre and bloody tour on Wednesday.

In that house, searched by the

the same night of the double attack on the sacristan and the priest, there were no traces of Islamic radicalism, beyond some religious article, such as a masbiha hanging in the patio, next to the tiny bathroom.

There were, in the bedrooms and in the living room, a large number of boxes of medicines, many of them used for mental illnesses.

Nolafren, Escitalopram

... They would support the thesis of a mental illness, of a psychotic break, which is one of the explanations being considered as an alternative to the purely jihadist attack.

In fact, the imam of the main mosque in the Caridad neighborhood, where the majority of Algeciras' Muslim community is concentrated, points out that Yasin's family could have a history of mental disorders.

Specifically,

, her father would suffer psychotic episodes.

The policemen who arrested him were impressed, more than his childish face, by the smile that remained on him after killing the sacristan

and wounding the priest

with a clean machete and in the name of Allah.

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