Police ‘are attempting to find a fourth particular person concerned within the assault on Spain and Barcelona celebrity Lamine Yamal’s dad’ – after authorities arrested three males ‘who stabbed him in a parking lot’

Police have confirmed they’ve arrested three males they’re nonetheless questioning following the stabbing of Spanish worldwide Lamine Yamal‘s dad.

Mounir Nasroaui, 32, was rushed to hospital on Wednesday evening after being knifed within the chest and ribs within the neighbourhood of Rocafonda in Mataro north of Barcelona the place 17-year-old World Cup sensation Yamal grew up.

Detectives have confirmed the arrested males had been concerned in an earlier incident wherein Mounir was filmed in a avenue confrontation after having water thrown over him from a balcony.

He was filmed being pushed away by native police employed by Mataro City Corridor after getting concerned in an argument whereas sporting a Barcelona shirt together with his son’s title and squad quantity on the again.

A spokesman for the regional Mossos d’Esquadra police power mentioned on Thursday morning: ‘I can affirm three folks have been arrested following the stabbing of a person within the neighbourhood of Rocafonda in Mataro.

‘The investigation remains to be open and officers are nonetheless attempting to ascertain the extent of implication of these detained.

‘Extra arrests might happen later in the present day. We’re not ready to supply any extra particulars at this stage in regards to the arrested mens’ ages and nationalities.

‘What we will say is that the stabbing occurred at 9.10pm in a parking lot and the arrests befell a few hours later and the three folks arrested had been in custody by 11pm.

‘The arrests occurred within the neighbourhood of Rocafonda in Mataro. The sufferer was taken to hospital in Barcelona.

‘There was a earlier incident involving the lads believed to have been concerned within the stabbing, shortly after noon yesterday.

‘That incident and the circumstances surrounding the next stabbing and whether or not the lads allegedly concerned ran into one another or the suspects laid in look forward to the sufferer remains to be underneath investigation and is a crucial a part of the probe as a result of it can decide the fees the arrested males may face.’

Police are mentioned to have been alerted by a person described regionally as Mounir’s greatest pal following the stabbing in Frank Marshall Avenue.

A well-placed police supply mentioned on Thursday: ‘The knife wounds the sufferer suffered have not affected any very important organ and his life will not be in peril.’

A fourth man remains to be being hunted by police in accordance with native reviews.

Mounir was admitted to an intensive care unit at Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Barcelona however is anticipated to be transferred to a traditional ward afterward Thursday.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta was amongst those that visited the Barcelona winger’s dad on Wednesday evening in hospital following the stabbing.

Police can maintain the three suspects for as much as 72 hours from the time of their arrest underneath Spanish regulation earlier than handing them over to the courts.

An investigating decide shall be tasked with deciding whether or not to remand the suspects in custody or launch them on bail pending an ongoing felony probe.

The listening to shall be held in non-public at a court docket in Mataro, a 35-minute drive north of Barcelona, as is regular in Spain the place solely trials happen in public.

The stabbing has been described regionally as a ‘shock and unprovoked assault.’

The motive behind the assault remains to be unclear though Moroccans residing in Lamine Yamal’s childhood neighbourhood have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction he selected to play for Spain and never for Morocco the place his dad was born.

Lamine’s well-known objective celebration, wherein he indicators 304 together with his fingers, displays the final three digits of Rocafonda’s postcode.

His father and mom, who’s from Equatorial Guinea, divorced when he was a toddler.

The footballer’s uncle, who owned a bakery in Rocafonda, instructed Catalan day by day La Vanguardia late final 12 months in an interview when requested about his {the teenager}’s choice to play for Spain: ‘On the finish of the day Lamine was born right here. He is solely visited Morocco as soon as.’