Moroccan Man Arrested in Spain for Fatal Stabbing Linked to Drug Trade

"The people involved are repeat offenders, linked to crimes of gender-based violence, human trafficking and drug trafficking. On the one hand, Mounir, 44, and Abdelkader, 38, both Moroccans, with criminal records for alleged road traffic offenses, threats, brawls and drug trafficking. On the other hand, Abdelaziz, 41, [...] whose criminal record includes alleged offenses of threats, trafficking and brawls," say sources close to the investigation to El Español.

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According to the investigators, "Mounir and Abdelkader went to Abdelaziz’s place to demand a debt. A bloody brawl followed and alarmed the neighbors who alerted the police." Once on the scene, four local police officers saw the alleged murderer, Abdelaziz, continue to threaten Mounir, already seriously injured in the neck, with a knife. They managed to subdue him and tried to provide first aid to the injured man to stop the bleeding, pending the arrival of the emergency services.

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The police then discovered the lifeless body of Abdelkader inside the apartment. He died after being stabbed in the heart by Abdelaziz, confirm the same sources. Mounir and Abdelaziz, seriously injured, were rushed to the Santa Lucia hospital in Cartagena. The judicial police went there the same day to proceed with the arrest of the alleged murderer, Abdelaziz, aged 41. Mounir, 44, on the other hand, was also to be arrested after his surgery, but he died a few hours after his admission.