(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country.
Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras on January 25, 2023.
But it said in a statement that [Yassine] Kanjaa would spend up to 30 years in a penitentiary psychiatric establishment.
Prosecutors had sought 50 years in jail for Kanjaa on terrorism charges for killing a sacristan with machete blows to the head and neck at one church, and wounding a priest during mass at another.
