The man who fled to the mountains after seriously injuring a monk monastery of the Holy Spirit of the Mountain in Gilet (Valencia), he used several sticks and a bottle to commit the assassination and injure three other religious people while shouting “I am Jesus Christ and I am going to kill the brothers”.
This was stated by one of the monks who suffered minor injuries while fighting against the attacker, whom he described as a “insane” between 30 and 40 years old and robustbefore running away “and sneaking into the mountain”.
This religious man explained that he was in the kitchen when he heard screams from the upper floor of the monastery and he went back up thinking that another member of the congregation had fallen to the ground.
Then he met the attacker when “He beat up his companions one after the other and also strongly.” “He used everything he took: sticks and a bottle,” said this monk, who said that they do not know how he entered the premises since this Saturday the little accommodation they have was closed.
In any case, he declared that the unknown He did not cause material damage to the monastery and did not intend to steal nothing except that his whole desire was to physically harm the brothers.
He stressed that the religious community of this monastery located in the interior of Valencia is “small” because it composed of only seven monks and added that only one of them, who was at the door, did not meet the assassin.
Monastery of the Holy Spirit of Mont à Gilet
After the four injured monks were taken to hospitalone of them in critical condition, the other three will spend this night in the monastery.
“I’m a little scared, afraid he’ll come back because we’re in the middle of the field.”he confessed, while continuing that “this man’s heart is very good and there has been no shortage of people who have come to support us and offered to stay as long as it takes” .
