 Almogavars took members of these communities as prisoners, hid them in caves and demanded ransom or sold them far away as captives.Often these Almogavars were acting not in their own territory, but in the neighboring one, to better ensure their impunity and further complicate the chase.To do so, they found moral justifications based on the suspicions against the Moors of the Murcian kingdom, accused of helping fellow Granadians in raids on Christian territory.