Spain: Police raid home of suspect in church machete attacks

Published January 26, 2023 1:53 AM

By SERGIO RODRIGO, JENNIFER O’MAHONY and JOSEPH WILSON
Associated Press

ALGECIRAS, Spain (AP) — Spanish police have raided the home of a 25-year-old Moroccan man held over the machete attacks at two Catholic churches the previous day that left a church officer dead and a priest injured in the southern city of Algeciras. Spain’s interior minister said that police searched the suspect’s home on Thursday to “determine the nature” of Wednesday night’s attacks. A National Court judge is investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism. The minister said that investigators don’t think anyone else was involved. Witnesses said that a machete-wielding man jumped on the altar of a church before chasing a sacristan outside and inflicting mortal wounds.

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