The Algeciras police had a file on the alleged jihadist for months. Yassine Kanjaa caught the eye of the brokers virtually since he arrived within the metropolis of Cádiz half a yr in the past. In reality, on June 16, 2022, it was discovered that he was in an irregular scenario, for which cause the expulsion proceedings started. A repatriation that would not be made efficient since Morocco refused to acknowledge that Yassine Kanjaa had Moroccan nationality.
Yassine Kanjaa, 25, arrived in Spain with out documentation and, having no certificates of her nationality, Morocco refused on her return, arguing that it had no document that the particular person was Moroccan. In this case, the method of expulsion of an individual turns into extra difficult and may lengthen considerably over time.
“He was wanting up talking one thing in his language”
The alleged jihadist entered the Church of San Isidro after six within the afternoon on Wednesday and went to the altar, the place he started to the touch issues and was expelled. Shortly after, he approached the altar and took out a machete. The priest was capable of dodge the primary blow, however not a severe minimize to the neck.
Yassine Kanjaa later went to the Church of Nuestra Señora de La Palma, town’s foremost temple, and located that the mass had ended and the sacristan was on the altar accumulating issues. According to all indications, he killed him as a result of he thought he was the priest, though Diego Valencia was really the sacristan, a person who had been serving this church in Algeciras for practically 16 years and “did every thing” within the temple, from opening and shutting the doorways, even flower preparations, as a result of “earlier than I had a flower store. Eyewitnesses say they clearly noticed how the attacker raised his head and “seemed up talking one thing in his language.”