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Join on Telegram A Spanish gunman shot a Moroccan man dead while shouting racist, anti-Moroccan slurs for his act.
The incident took place last week on Sunday in Mazarron, in the province of Murcia, southeastern Spain, El Espanol reported.
Providing exclusive content and videos from the murder scene, the Spanish news outlet said that a gunman named Carlos publicly shot the Moroccan victim identified as Younes.
Younes, a father of a 10-year old son, died in the hospital a few hours after his hospitalization.
The 30-year old Moroccan victim lived in the coastal town of Mazarron for several years.
The news outlet said that the gunman shot the Moroccan man three times in the chest, citing racial reasons for his actions.
According to witnesses, the 52-year-old gunman expressed his “discomfort” with the presence of Moroccans in public spaces.
“I don’t want Moors in the place. The Moors don’t have papers,” the man said.
Younes was shot while sitting on the terrace of El Muelle, the cafeteria in the place, having a drink with his Spanish partner Andrea. The cafeteria is “very popular” among migrants from Morocco and Algeria, noted the El Espanol report.
The gunman was in the cafeteria and had repeatedly expressed his rejection of the “immigrant clientele,” the report added.
At one point, Carlos left and came back with a gun. Although he was not hiding the gun, nobody from the cafeteria services seemed to have noticed him.
The murder came after a “heated dialogue” between Younes and Carlos, according to the report.
The murder frustrated migrants and tourists alike.
The gunman ran to the beach to escape the crime scene, but a police patrol in the region ran after him and arrested him.
El Espanol said one of the crime’s motives was xenophobia. Following his arrest, Carlos, the gunman, reportedly told the police that they should not let “moors” in Spain.
The Spanish news outlet suggested another reason for the murder of Younes, suggesting that the gunman and his victim knew each other previously and had “some kind of disagreement.”
The murder comes just a few weeks after Spain attracted sharp criticism from both Spanish and international human rights NGOs and other advocacy groups for its violent and dehumanizing attitude toward the thousands of Moroccan migrants who crossed to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in May.
After news broke of the mass attempts at irregular migration in Ceuta, Spain dispatched its army, who used tear gas to disperse the migrants.
Some videos also showed the Spanish army pushing the migrants and preventing them from leaving the sea.
Human rights activists condemned Spain’s heavy-handed approach, slamming Spanish authorities for collectively deporting the migrants – including minors – instead of making individual assessments before repatriation.
