A minor is admitted for stabbing two young people at the Ceuta Fair

The Ceuta Juvenile Judge has ordered this Tuesday the closed detention of a 17-year-old adolescent as the alleged perpetrator of two crimes of attempted homicide and injury, which the Prosecutor's Office attributes to him, for his participation in a confrontation between two groups of young people early last Sunday morning, when the first night of the Fair in the autonomous city ended, which resulted in two men being stabbed.

The minor, whom the National Police considers the material author of the attack with a knife and who had already been identified in the framework of the special deployment of the Security Forces organized for the start of the Patron Saint Festivities, has given a statement this Tuesday after to be arrested shortly after the event and to agree to an extension of his detention, according to judicial sources in statements to Europa Press.

The young man has several police records, including an arrest last week for setting fire to the private vehicle of a relative of an agent from the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) of the Local Police.

The events for which he has been locked up in the Punta Blanca Reform Center awaiting trial took place at 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, when a uniformed crew of the National Police was summoned in the vicinity of the Paseo de la Marina Española, in the heart of Ceuta, because two young people aged 22 and 21 had suffered stab wounds after a “discussion”.

Once identified as the perpetrator of the “attack”, agents of the Citizen Security Brigade of the local Superior Headquarters went to the minor's home, where he was arrested.. They also went to the University Hospital, where the victims required medical attention for a wound that required “several stitches” and another six centimeters deep without danger to their lives in both cases..