Overview

• Agents from the Mossos d’Esquadra’s Comisaría General de Información detained the imam on July 9 after families in the Marca de l’Ham neighborhood filed a complaint.
• Investigators allege he struck children with a stick and delivered slaps during Quran and Arabic lessons between October 2024 and May 2025.
• The imam had been teaching minors at the local madrasa before community leaders removed him from the center.
• Judicial authorities have released him under investigation as they continue gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses.
• Spain’s National Police is assessing formal expulsion measures following an earlier imam’s removal for radicalization in February.