A 17-year-old Spanish girl manages to clings to life after a horrific attack in which her Moroccan migrant lover allegedly set her ablaze, leaving burns across 95 percent of her body.
The unnamed teen, under the Canary Islands’ child protection system, had fled her care facility to shack up with the 20-year-old suspect in a squalid squat.
The police had been searching for her after the care center reported her missing, just days prior to the tragedy.
Identified by Spanish media as Abarrafia H., the attacker had illegally entered Spain via a rubber dinghy just weeks before, landing on Lanzarote and facing a deportation notion, which he had a month to appeal.
He’d been housed in a refugee center on Gran Canaria, but ignored his expulsion order, choosing instead to pursue a forbidden romance with the vulnerable minor.
Sources report that the pair’s illicit affair turned deadly in the early hours of Wednesday in Las Palmas’ La Isleta neighborhood.
Witnesses recount a blaze erupting in the abandoned house where the couple cohabited.
Investigators say he doused her in accelerant, ignited a paper, and hurled the inferno at her. The suspect brazenly claims that it was merely a freak accident from smoking on a mattress.
The girl, engulfed in fire, staggered into the street screaming, reportedly gasping to onlookers: “It was him. He threw a burning piece of paper at me.”
A passerby alerted emergency services around 4 a.m., as the victim lay scorched and barely conscious on the pavement.
Medics rushed her to Doctor Negrín University Hospital in critical condition, battling smoke inhalation and catastrophic burns.
Due to the severity, she was airlifted to a specialized burns unit in Seville, where doctors are fighting to save her ravaged body.
The suspect, suffering minor burns and smoke effects, was treated at the same hospital before his swift arrest.
Now in custody, he awaits charges as police probe for a possible accomplice in this nightmarish assault.
Authorities classify the case as gender-based violence, but it also reveals the perils of unchecked relationships amid Spain’s migrant surge.
In 2024 alone, over 61,000 illegals flooded Spain’s shores, nearly 47,000 swarming the Canary Islands, straining resources and endangering locals like this vulnerable teen.
The tragedy comes just days after riots broke out in Torre Pacheco after a 68-year-old man was severely beaten by three Moroccans.
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