Spanish Duo Faces 9-Year Sentence for Shooting Moroccan Minor in Ceuta

The two individuals who had hidden in a house on the Spanish Navy Avenue, shot in broad daylight with a rifle at a Moroccan minor who was walking with other compatriots in the street. One of them recorded the scene with his mobile phone, laughing and hurling insults at the Moroccan migrants, then posted the video on social media, reports El Faro de Ceuta.

The public prosecutor accuses the two individuals of incitement to hatred, discrimination and assault. For the crime of incitement to hatred, the prosecution is requesting a 4-year prison sentence for the two defendants, as well as the payment of a daily fine of 12 euros over a period of 12 months. It also requests that they be barred from practicing their profession or the education and sports professions for a period of 10 years.

For the crime of injury, the prosecutor is requesting a 5-year prison sentence, given the aggravating circumstance of discrimination, and the payment of 3,000 euros in damages to the victim. The prosecution believes that the facts, which occurred during the migration crisis in May, provoked by the massive entry of Moroccan migrants, make the two accused guilty of an act of revenge against the Moroccan migrants wandering in the neighborhoods of the autonomous city.

The video of the assault, which went viral on social media, led to an increase in hatred or rejection towards Moroccan migrants. The victim, a 17-year-old minor, seriously injured, was transferred to a health center for treatment. The Andalusian Association for the Defense of Human Rights (APDHA) condemns this assault which violates the fundamental rights of minors who "must be protected above all else", recalling that some of them have been repatriated to Morocco, without legal assistance, without being heard and that others