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Young killer confesses to stabbing 11-year-old child to death in Spain
Mateo was stabbed multiple times while playing football with friends in Toledo, Spain
A 20-year-old Spanish man has been arrested for the brutal knife attack on a young boy in Mocejón, Toledo on Sunday morning, August 18. According to official sources, the killer immediately confessed to the crime after he was apprehended at his father’s house, located around an hour from Madrid.
Mateo and his friends were playing football in the Ángel Tardío sports centre when the killer slipped through a hole in the fence and rushed the group in what appears so far to be a random attack. The older boys managed to get away, but 11-year-old Mateo was cornered and stabbed ten times.
The killer fled the scene in a grey Ford Mondeo, but police had an accurate description of him even though he was wearing a scarf over his face: between 16 and 22 years old, with shaved, blonde hair and a tattoo.
Moreover, investigators quickly established the perpetrator had to be a local, since he knew exactly where the gap was in the three-metre fence.
The arrest follows an "extensive" two-day search operation, in which two raids were carried out on homes in the town, according to the Guardia Civil.
"There is no sense to all this. It is a pain that cannot be explained. It has nothing to do with quarrels or anything. What enemies can an 11-year-old child have?" asked Asell Sánchez, a family spokesperson.
"It is incomprehensible and makes no sense. That an 11-year-old child rides his bicycle to the sports centre and is killed, murdered...” he added.
In a social media post the day after the murder, Emiliano Garcia-Page, president of the Castilla-La Mancha region, promised "the full weight of the law will fall" on the perpetrator, adding: "My thoughts are with Mateo's family, with his friends and with the entire municipality."
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