Suspect Arrested in Acid Attack on Moroccan Teen in Spain

At the beginning of May, on May 3 to be precise, a 17-year-old Moroccan boy, "without history", was attacked with corrosive acid, leaving him between life and death at the time. Citing several Spanish media sources, the Huffpost reports that a suspect has been arrested in this case.

It should be noted that this young Moroccan had been burned to varying degrees on 70% of his body, particularly on the neck, face and back. He has now woken up from the coma. Care continues to heal him.

According to the Huffpost, this attack would probably be a settling of scores, not concerning the high school student himself but his brother (who would have gone to Germany, in order to flee his debts). This media writes in this sense: "the victim’s brother, Yahya MH, left Spain for Germany a few months before the attack, on January 31, to ’flee debts incurred’. His wife would also have been threatened. The teenager could thus be the victim of a settling of scores between his brother and his creditors".

The same source specifies that the suspect arrested in this case was arrested in the center of Zaragoza, that he appeared before the judge last Thursday, that he refused to speak and that the magistrate decided that he will be prosecuted in pre-trial detention without the possibility of release on bail for attempted murder.