Suspect Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Moroccan Man in Spain

It all started with a "bad look" or "a glass falling to the ground", report several local media including La Voz de Galicia. Some claim that an altercation between the two young men had taken place in the late afternoon and that the knife blows were given in public. Worse still, while the young Moroccan was bleeding and taking his last breath, his aggressor ran towards him to try to finish him off. Soufian Mraha will die a few meters from the police station.

The two officers on duty came out and tried to stem the bleeding while waiting for the emergency services. Impossible, the young man gradually loses consciousness before dying. The emergency services tried to revive him for nearly an hour and were ultimately only able to confirm his death.

Of German origin, the aggressor, one Jürgen Wilfried Karau, also lived in the same town. The man has had some legal problems in the past but never as serious as this one. He lived in an apartment with his mother and some witnesses claim that their relationship was chaotic. Very extravagant, it was she who bought him his cigarettes and tobacco. According to a relative, he was recently arrested for stealing from a neighbor.

The Moroccan had only been living in Salceda for a few weeks. Still a student, he had worked for several months in the Citroën factory in the region to pay for his studies. His colleagues and friends remember a young man with a good education and "above all moral values". An amateur footballer, he was part of the local team and was therefore very well known. "There is no doubt that it was bad luck. We know very well that he did nothing. He was healthy and friendly, a nice boy. The other one, the one who was arrested, everyone knew him in Salceda," says a distraught friend.