Moroccan Worker’s Fatal Fall in Spain Leaves Family Mourning

Adnan was the only son of his parents. "He had a sister, but his parents counted much more on him," his cousin Hicham, residing in Zarautz since the age of eleven, confides to El Diario Vasco. As a Muslim, he says he accepts "death as it comes, it can be natural or occur following an accident" as in the case of Adnan. But unlike him, the young man’s parents have not yet accepted the death of their only son, adds the cousin, specifying that Adnan leaves behind a ten-month-old son.

Hicham recounts that he also worked for several years in a similar job and that he gave it up as soon as he found a better opportunity. "It’s one of the worst jobs I know," he declares, explaining that the pace of work is frantic and forces you to work more to earn more. Adnan worked for Ficotel, a subcontractor of Cotronic and Movistar, says the cousin who explains that "the conditions are generally different if you work directly for the main company".

Adnan was "very athletic," continues Hicham, who shows on his cell phone photos of Adnan playing football on the beach. He had also practiced kickboxing and was a member of the Kuraia Zarautz club. "He was a born competitor. He trained with us for three or four years, until 2019. He had to give it up for professional reasons and started playing beach soccer with a team of friends," says Asier Garayalde, his former kickboxing coach, who was marked by the young man’s humanism.

His death was a hard blow for the coach. "A teammate called me to announce the sad news and I couldn’t believe it. Last year, he wrote to me to say ’that he wanted to resume training... It’s a person who marked me by his way of being. Many people go through the club, but he was always ready to help you," testifies Asier, who believes that with his sports talents, Adnan "could have gone very far" in the discipline, because "he was skilled, fast, ready to train and gave his all".