Algeciras on Edge: Security Heightened After Suspected Jihadist Attack on Priest

The death of the priest has upset the Andalusian city. In the cafes, this presumed terrorist attack remains the main topic of conversation. The case has left a wound in the city that will take time to heal. To try to reassure the population, the security forces, in particular the national police and the Civil Guard, have stepped up surveillance of traditional threats (detection cells, isolated individuals or radicals) to prevent new attacks of this kind, reports Heraldo.

Since this knife attack carried out by the Moroccan Yassine Kanjaa, the heads of the anti-terrorism fight are on maximum alert, for the simple reason that this is the first time that a knife murder, one of Daesh’s techniques, has been recorded in Spain. Given that this is the easiest attack to carry out, the anti-terrorism agents fear that the Kanjaa case, widely reported in the media, may inspire or encourage other "lone wolves" to act. As was the case in France in 2015 with the heavy media coverage of the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, which led to a multiplication of these attacks in the country that year.

The agents also think of certain non-radicalized people, of street youth who squat in abandoned houses and are active in drug trafficking, or others suffering from problems of uprooting or mental disorders, who could carry out violent attacks against citizens and in particular against the Islamic community of Algeciras. This is why the