He came in to rob a house. The owners caught him and tortured him for two days until he could escape.

Ibrahim is the fictitious name of a child of only 14 years old who was the victim of brutal beatings, torture and attempted murder in a field of a Spanish city called La Linea de la Concepción, in the province of Cadiz. Fortunately, the teenager was able to escape before his tormentors ended his life. They wanted to burn him alive.

It turns out that the young Ibrahim had entered two days earlier, with an alleged intention of theft, in a house whose owners were not willing to receive a thief. In this house lived a character called El Francés, aged 20, related to the drug trafficking of this city of Cadiz, accompanied by his parents. They captured the alleged abuser and, instead of delivering him to the police, they decided to exercise their own justice. And they did not have the slightest pity with him.

They beat and tortured Ibrahim for 48 hours so that the miner, of Moroccan descent, could barely move and open an eye. And then the inhabitants of the invading house took him to a vacant lot where, bound and gagged, they had thought of setting it on fire.

Ibrahim could take a second look at his captors and run with what was out of breath. The body was badly wounded and desperate, he went to the streets of a rural slum of La Linea de Concepción and was able to put his life in safety.

"They had tried to cut off a little finger with one hand, had deformed face shots and legs full of round bruises made with a hammer," said one of the founders surprised the child on December 27th to the Spanish newspaper
The country. In addition, on arrival at the hospital to be treated, the minor also fractured his right wrist.

Justice by its own means

Three months have pbaded since the bloody act, and the Frenchman and his parents are now in detention and are under investigation for attempted murder, unlawful detention, injuries and theft. Although in principle, it is presumed that they were victims of an attempted robbery, things quickly turned back, to the shame of Ibrahim, and the victims of the robbery became aggressors.

The Moroccan teenager who was about not to tell the story had meanwhile had his last known residence in a juvenile center in Torremolinos, Malaga, where he had disappeared three years ago, according to the La Línea Commissioner, Francisco López Matesanz. .

During this period, the young man apparently wandered "throughout Andalusia", according to the same commissioner, and allegedly participated in robbery attempts in Granada and in the same town of La Línea. Apparently, the miner was going to suffer another blow, but the residents of this residence decided to do justice themselves, according to Matesanz.

Ibrahim told the agents of the La Línea Specialized and Violent Crimes Unit (UDEV) that they "wanted to burn him alive" when they took him from the Frenchman's house to an abandoned land . There was no doubt about the intentions of their captors, since they were carrying a can of gas with them.

The miner was also able to accurately reconstruct the places where he had been arrested and, furthermore, he recognized El Francés, while he had wanted to hide his face for the duration of the kidnapping.

Immediately after finding the child seriously injured, the police raided the home of El Francés and found evidence of the veracity of Ibrahim's story. There, the agents arrested four people, the Frenchman, his parents and a fourth man, a young man who observed the torture and did nothing for it. prevent, for which he is considered the author of a crime of omission.

At the scene, the police found the blood and the belongings of the child. In addition, the ropes with which he was attached, the adhesive tape with which to gag and the gas can.