New Floyd in Spain, Police Kills 18-Year Moroccan Boy

Spanish police officers killed a Moroccan boy inside a juvenile detention center, in circumstances similar to the death of the African American citizen, George Floyd in the United States. 

The widespread newspaper "El Pais" published a video clip showing that the boy who died last July in the city of Almeria, south of the European country. The Moroccan victim did not express violent resistance to the Spanish Civil Guard, according to the circulated video clip.

A Spanish security officer appeared, putting his knee on the boy's back, for minutes, without removing it, which led to his death lying on his stomach above the bed.

Iliass Tahiri, an 18-year-old Moroccan boy who died on July 1, 2019, in a Spanish juvenile detention center. Tahiri entered the Oria juvenile center on May 2, 2019, and left two months later in a body bag.

[caption id="attachment_131881" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] 18-year-old Moroccan boy Iliass Tahiri[/caption]

The Spanish judiciary had concluded that the accident was unintentionally, acquitting the guards who killed the boy. The Judiciary alleged that the late descendant from the city of Tetouan, in northern Morocco, showed violent resistance.

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Although there is a 13-minute video clip documenting the incident, the Spanish authorities have not published it fully publicly, because it was confidentially classified.

The video includes two clips, each approximately six and a half minutes long, and shows the boy handcuffed while his feet were tightly tied inside a small room.

The Spanish newspaper, which published the video, reported that the late boy did not show any resistance, when five security personnel and a guard from the center were holding him in the room.

However, the newspaper stated that the Moroccan boy was sharp and had previously been held in two other centers, and was expected to be on trial for threatening a psychiatrist at the center.

The dead boy's family lodged an appeal against the Spanish court's decision and doubted that the late son had died because of violent action from the security persons side.

George Floyd was an African-American man who was killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Protests in response to both Floyd's death, and more broadly to police violence against black people, quickly spread across the United States and internationally.