Moroccan Man Faces 23-Year Sentence for Fatal Stabbing of Spanish Retiree

The defendant has been detained and now faces justice. The prosecutor and the lawyer for the victim’s family, Antoni Quera, have requested 23 years in prison against him.

The trial will be held at the Girona court with a popular jury who will have to listen to all the parties and judge whether the Moroccan deliberately tried to kill the victim. For the defense, the man suffers from "paranoid schizophrenia" and acted under the influence of a mental disorder.

He explained that he had passed in front of the victim with a kitchen knife he had bought the day before, and had attacked him "without knowing why he had chosen him".

With this murder, the accused says he wants to denounce the discrimination he has suffered in the granting of social assistance.