The analysis of the electronic devices that the National Police intervened in the home of the detainee for the fatal attack on two churches in Algeciras begins to yield the first results. As La Vanguardia has been able to learn, the data obtained points to the express radicalization process experienced by the lone wolf Yasin Kanja before committing the crime that resulted in a sacristan being killed and four other people injured.
Sources close to the investigation confirm that the arrested 25-year-old Moroccan consumed jihadist material. But, according to the first indications, he had been doing it for a short time. This would explain that the information agents did not have this individual under their radar, as confirmed yesterday by the Ministry of the Interior. The investigators, according to the same sources, are now focused on determining the type of jihadist material that he was consulting before the attack, the frequency with which he did so, and the level of depth in the content that he reached.
The agents who carried out the search at dawn on Wednesday for two hours in the pen where he lived with two other colleagues took several flash drives that began to be analyzed last night. In parallel, they are tracking her profiles on social networks, the web pages she was able to visit, the forums she was able to enter and the calls she was able to make in recent weeks.
The appalling conditions in which the arrested man lived poorly, a few meters from the churches where the machete-in-hand panic broke out, have led the investigators to conclude that he probably consumed the jihadist material in booths in the area, since he did not have technology at home. For this reason, according to police sources, they are investigating phone booths in Algeciras that he could have frequented to try to gather more evidence that can be used by the judge to shore up the case for Salafist jihadist terrorism that is being investigated in the National Court.
Since all the information is not on the same hard drive or laptop, as has been the case in other cases, the agents have requested an extension to continue sweeping the different scenarios in which the alleged lone wolf moved, as the National Police suspects that It is about, despite recognizing that the circumstance that he is mentally unbalanced is also mixed.
Kanja lived with very few economic resources, in a shared house and under the threshold of unsanitary conditions. He did not have electronic devices, beyond a mobile phone, which complicates the investigation.
The agents must now look for where he was able to access more material. Investigators suspect that this young man was a perfect breeding ground for jihadist ideas, which, together with his mental instability, generated this homicidal impulse.
Paradoxically, his lack of resources is delaying the investigation, which has caused the judge of the National Court investigating the case, Joaquín Gadea, to have extended the police investigation until Monday, when the arrested person will have to go to court to, probably be sent to prison.
