Widow Calls for Justice After Alleged Racist Shooting of Moroccan Man in Spain

"They didn’t know each other at all. They had never spoken and they had never argued. We didn’t know who this man was before Sunday, June 13," said Andrea, the victim’s widow, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Español. She hopes the judge will send Carlos, 52, the alleged killer of her husband, to prison at his first appearance. "My husband was killed by a racist, she specified. He is a cold-blooded killer."

Present at the time of the events, the deceased’s friends and the waiters of the bar-café on the Plaza del Muelle where Younès was with some friends last Sunday, June 13, confirmed that it was a racist crime. According to the statements of a waitress at the cafeteria, the alleged killer had been outraged by the presence of Moroccan customers in the establishment and had made openly racist remarks: "I don’t want Moors here" or "The Moors have no papers." On Tuesday, dozens of Moroccans demonstrated in Murcia to protest this heinous crime.

Andrea is still in shock. She remembers the good times spent with Younès and what a good family man he was. "Eleven years ago, after an unhappy first marriage, I got together with Younes and since then we have taken an apartment on Sanotel Street, in Mazarron," she recalls. "Younès has always treated the children from my previous marriage as if they were his own," she testifies. Andrea is the mother of three children: Francisco Javier, 19, Gloria, 13, and Rayane. The latter is the result of her union with her now deceased husband.

Andrea is worried about the future of her children. "I have three children to support in addition to a 350 euro installment I have to pay at the end of each month," she laments. [...] The poor (Younès) worked at whatever came his way: he alternated between painting and masonry jobs."