Church of Our Lady of La Palma in Algeciras, Spain. / Credit: Faconaumanni (CC BY-SA 3.0) Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
On Jan. 25 a young Moroccan national identified as Yassine Kanjaa carried out jihadist .
Church of Our Lady of La Palma in Algeciras, Spain. / Credit: Faconaumanni (CC BY-SA 3.0) Wikimedia CommonsACI Prensa Staff, Apr 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).On Jan. 25 a young Moroccan national identified as Yassine Kanjaa carried out jihadist attacks in Algeciras, Spain, killing a sacristan and seriously wounding a priest in two different incidents.The General Commissariat of Information, an intelligence service under Spain s National Police, compiled two reports on the attacks dated Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Europa Press recently gained access to them and on April 26 published details reconstructing events.The reports state that according to Father Antonio Rodríguez Lucena, who was wounded, the attacker was not provoked: "Nobody did anything that could bother him."In his testimony, the priest said that Kanjaa told a parishioner that "the Christian faith is negative and must be eliminated."According to the reports to which Europa Press has had access, the attack began at
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