(AFP) A Spanish court ordered Monday a Moroccan man accused of storming two churches with a machete to be remanded in custody without bail on murder and terrorism charges.
Yassine Kanjaa, 25, is accused of killing a verger and seriously injuring a priest for “terrorist purposes,” the National Court said in a statement after questioning him.
If convicted he faces life imprisonment.
Police arrested Kanjaa at the scene of the bloodshed late on Wednesday in the southern port city of Algeciras.
The suspect first entered the church of San Isidro where he allegedly attacked a 74-year-old priest with a machete “leaving him seriously wounded,” the interior ministry said.
