A suspected terrorist accused of stabbing three people in Madrid before attacking police shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ reportedly told his mum he was on a mission to ‘kill Christians.’
The 18-year-old, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, remains in hospital after being tasered and shot by anti-terror police when he holed himself up in a flat following the triple stabbing and violently resisted attempts to arrest him.
A judge at Spain‘s central criminal court is now investigating the incidents on Saturday afternoon as suspected Islamic terrorist crimes.
Cops had told the judge the teenager, who is currently under police guard at Madrid’s Gregorio Maranon Hospital, had told his mother that his mission ‘was to kill Christians’ and that he had to ‘cleanse himself’, according to Spanish newspaper El Espanol.
Other reports said detectives were investigating whether the suspect, who has so far been identified only by his first name Mohammed, had consumed the synthetic drug Captago, which is known to have been used by ISIS fighters in Syria to make themselves feel invincible.
Footage published late yesterday showed the teenager being stretchered out of the property in the Madrid neighbourhood of Puente de Vallecas where he was taken into custody on Saturday afternoon.
As well as trying to attack officers with a large knife he was carrying, he is also said to have recited verses from the Quran before being overpowered. […]