A North African migrant was arrested in Spain after allegedly attacking his Senegalese neighbor in the head with a hammer Thursday.

The man, an Algerian national, allegedly escalated a verbal dispute with two Senegalese men to a full-blown assault at approximately 6 p.m. local time in Torre Pacheco, La Verdad reported in Spanish. The attacker also reportedly attacked another Senegalese man by striking him in the neck with a broken bottle.

Eyewitnesses alerted informed authorities after recording the scene, according to La Gaceta. Videos showed a man drenched in blood as the victim lay motionless on the sidewalk. The suspect was later arrested by the local police and the victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he remains in critical condition.

The incident comes less than two weeks after Spain received almost 900,000 applications from undocumented migrants looking for a path to legal citizenship.

“Every day the horror in our streets grows more indescribable,” Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish nationalist party Vox, said in a recent post on X. “Nothing forces us to keep coexisting with this barbarity, except the betrayal of a heartless political class determined to turn Spain into a country of predators and prey.”

“Deportation, reemigration, and national priority. And punishment for the politicians responsible.”

This is not the first time the small Spanish town has witnessed such an incident. In July 2025, three young North African migrants were detained for allegedly beating a 68-year-old man, triggering unrest across the town of 40,000 people, according to the BBC. (RELATED: ‘We Depend On Them’ — Belfast Victim’s Family Issues Pro-Migrant Statement After Near Beheading)

But while Spain braces itself to sift through nearly double the amount of citizenship applications it was expecting, the European Parliament approved new immigration restrictions to facilitate deportations and remigration.

The parliament voted 418-218 in June to introduce “return hubs” and further restrict immigration, with some legislators chanting, “send them back.”

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