A judge has ordered the imprisonment of five young people detained by the National Police in Arrecife five months after they gave a brutal beating resulting in death to another boy of Moroccan origin in a marquee on the VÃa Medular in the capital of Lanzarote. This was announced this Wednesday in a statement by the Canary Islands Police Headquarters, which blames the five detainees for this death, between the ages of 20 and 22 and Colombian and Moroccan nationalities, three of them with police records.
According to the police version, on November 21, 2022, the victim, a young Moroccan, was premeditatedly attacked by five men, who beat him and caused injuries incompatible with life. Four of those investigated for this death fled Lanzarote, where they were finally arrested on their return, in the early hours of last Wednesday.
When the agents arrived at the place where the events occurred, they verified that a man was lying on the ground and was bleeding profusely from his neck and chest. Due to the seriousness of the injuries, the emergency health personnel could only certify his death minutes later. Several witnesses then assured the Police that five people had premeditatedly beaten the victim when he got off a bus.
The police investigation then focused on two groups that had had several altercations with the deceased days before. The first of these was a fight with a knife that the victim had with another Moroccan citizen in a parking lot in La Inés, in which stab wounds were caused.
In the second, a group of Colombian citizens, known to the former, with whom the deceased had argued and insulted days before, intervened, the police note details.
The investigators were able to verify, “without any kind of doubt”, that “all of them participated in the aggression” that caused “the death of the young man, last November”.
