Anice Khalfouni, better known to all Anis, 29 years old He was found to die in a brain dead state living in Valencia’s La Plata neighborhood. thrown into a street Valencia last July 28 at dawn. No one had helped him for hours, and later examinations revealed that he had a stab wound at heart level from a screwdriver. Barely four days later his death was confirmed at La Fe de València HospitalGiven the seriousness that Doctor Peset was referred from the hospital centre.
After half a month of investigation, the Homicide Squad of the Valencia National Police identified and arrested this Wednesday the alleged perpetrator of the crime, a 34-year-old inmate who was on leave when he allegedly killed his victim. He is initially charged with felony murder. If Anis is shown to be unlikely to defend, as the deceased’s family believes and the evidence indicates, a possible additional characterization for murder would be expected – the defense did not show injuries –
“They treacherously killed my son and laid him in the street like a dog,” the mother of the murdered teenager, Sara, cries. he was inside Algeria when you get a call from one of your daughters warned that Anis was in a coma, brain-dead after being stabbed. The woman tells that in her last moments she tried to get on a plane to Spain to be with her son, but there was no flight and she could not arrive on time by sea. So he boarded a stopover plane in France and went from there to Valencia, to arrive just before the doctors separated the young man from the machines that kept him alive on August 2.
“Because she had a healthy body, she wanted to donate her organs to save other people’s lives, but it couldn’t be because it was a murder and they needed the whole body for autopsy,” says Anis’ mother. His corpse was finally able to donate only the corneas of his eyes.
Investigations into the cases where the young man was attacked are continuing. According to the sources this newspaper consulted, the murder suspect had attacked the victim with four other people the day before and put up a strong resistance. “They couldn’t do it with him, so they treacherously killed him with a screwdriver”indicated the young man’s relatives.
Graffiti and flowers to keep Anis’ memory alive
Anis, as everyone in the neighborhood knew, was the oldest of five siblings. She came to Spain with her family in just a year and won the love and respect of everyone around her. In the park of Plaza Doctor Torrens in València, where he met with friends, two graffiti commemorating him confirm this: “The Eternal Anis” and “The one who leaves does not die, only the one who forgets dies”. Until a few days ago, they had flowers and candles on an improvised altar in their name. “You didn’t go for your true friends who love you, you will always be in our hearts,” said Ramón, who admitted he didn’t believe he was dead at first. “He was a beautiful person with a whole life ahead of him,” adds Emilio. Anis had played as a football goalkeeper for Mislata until the age of 21, but had to give it up to work at her disabled father’s family business fried chickens on Sueca Street. Now his family says he does odd jobs as a painter and pruning palm trees.