Reda Arshad, a Moroccan footballer playing for Spain’s Club Atlético Libertad, died Sunday in a violent altercation in the Santa Clara neighborhood of Seville in southern Spain, Spanish news outlet Dario de Sevilla reported.
Two individuals apparently stabbed the 21-year-old Moroccan multiple times in his chest and back, resulting in his immediate death.
Police arrested the alleged perpetrators, both 18-year-old Spanish residents of Los Pajaritos, shortly after the incident. One was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon, while the other, accompanied by his lawyer, surrendered at a National Police station at eight o’clock in the morning on Monday.
The killing allegedly stemmed from a fight at a nightclub on Aviación Street in the Calonge industrial estate in which two groups confronted each other. The brawl then escalated into the fatal confrontation on the street where the stabbing occurred.
“From the deep pain of the heart of Club Atlético Libertad, we are sorry to announce the death of our senior player Reda,” Club Atlético tweeted on X on Monday. “A young man with dreams and goals in life that a cruel and ruthless hand has taken from us.”
Club Atlético declared two days of official mourning.