The first statement of the jihadist from Algeciras after his arrest: "They deserved it, the true faith is Allah"

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"They deserved it, they deserved it," Yasin Kanza repeated before the police officers who arrested him last Wednesday after attacking two churches in Algeciras, stabbing to death the sacristan

and badly wounding four other people, including a parish priest.

Kanza did not stop insisting on that phrase and repeated it like a litany since the Police stopped him while he was praying in a square after the crime.

In his statement, to which this newspaper has had access, he added another element that alludes directly to the self-radicalization attributed to him by the investigators and the magistrate of the National Court

, who in his order speaks of jihadist Salafism .

"They deserved it.

The authentic faith is Allah”, he sentenced convinced, revealed police sources consulted.

Beyond these proclamations, there was no further collaboration.

The Police have extended his detention so he will go to the National Court next Monday instead of doing it today, as planned.

Rule out the involvement of more people in the event.

The extremism that he had reached in barely two months, according to what is clear from the investigation, made Yasin Kanza shout at women in the street for not wearing the veil and reprimand Muslim women if he considered that they were not wearing it correctly .

The only two sentences that he insistently uttered after his arrest is, for the investigators, another sign of the advanced process of extremism in which he was immersed.

Messages of support for Daesh

He also killed the sacristan in the name of Allah, as stated in the proceedings and reflected by the magistrate in his car.

Sources familiar with this judicial document specify that he gave the last stab to his victim, the mortal, "looking up at the sky and shouting a few words in Arabic among which the word Allah is heard."

On the same day of the attack, she had posted on Facebook messages of support for

and the

.

She used this social network in a dynamic way, although with a pseudonym.

In the search of the house where she lived together with several of her companions, the agents seized a flash drive with jihadist propaganda and a computer.

They also found traces of jihadist chats from

and

on your mobile phone.

Apparently he maintained communications with people residing at both points.

The agents of the

are working overtime to order all the documents, study them and, above all, try to find out the motivation that pushed Yasin Kanza to leave his house on Wednesday afternoon with a Koran in his hand and one katana in the other to assault the parishes of

and

.

The 25-year-old man has a psychiatric history in Morocco, his place of origin, and the Police have been watching him since last June, when he settled in Gibraltar, due to his "elusive" and "aggressive" behavior.

It was on that date that they noticed him.

He was in a marginal neighborhood taken over by drug and human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

The patrols that did the surveillance work caught their attention from the beginning.

That and no other was the reason why they required the documentation.

In this way, the Police realized that he was in Spain in

with which the corresponding expulsion file was initiated.

They did not arrest him because the young man provided an address and he had no police or judicial record in Spain.

This file is an administrative procedure that usually extends over time.

It was the second time that Yasin Kanza had left Morocco, a country in which, according to what sources in the case explained to this newspaper, the young man had a history of mental disorder.

The first was in 2019, although his adventure was short.

It only lasted three days.

From Gibraltar

The attacker reached

along with several friends on a jet ski from his country of origin.

All of them were intercepted.

The arrival took place on

and his return to Morocco was executed only three days later, on the 8th. The same sources indicated that he remained in police custody at all times and in Gibraltar the expulsion, if there was no reason Serious in nature, it is practically immediate.

Yasin Kanza and his fellow travelers then argued that they made the journey in search, the same sources say, "of a better life."

Their objective, they assured then, was the search for “new opportunities”.

The Ministry of the Interior denies that the Algeciras attacker meets the profile of a jihadist, for which reason Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has repeatedly requested "caution" in the face of a case that, according to health reports, has a man with mental problems as its protagonist .

"We are in an incipient moment of the investigation, let it develop," the head of the Interior insisted during these days, who traveled to the city after the attack by the young Moroccan national.

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