| | | Honor Killing in Joure
Posted on July 8, 2024 by Baron Bodissey
Joure is a town in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands. The male members of a family of Syrian culture-enrichers in Joure are in a heap o’ trouble for allegedly murdering an 18-year-old girl for being insufficiently Islamic.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from NH Nieuws:
Father also a suspect after death of woman (18) from Joure, Public Prosecutor suspects honor killing
July 5, 2024
The Public Prosecutor’s Office
The Public Prosecutor’s Office believes that an 18-year-old woman from Joure has been the victim of an honor killing. And meanwhile, her father is identified as a suspect, the Public Prosecutor’s Office reports. Her two brothers are in custody.
The father has not yet been arrested. The authorities think that he is in Syria. That is where the family is originally from. The Public Prosecutor’s Office reports that “measures are being taken to expedite his arrest.”
The Public Prosecutor’s Office recently subpoenaed emails that the father reportedly sent to De Telegraaf. In them, he reportedly acknowledged that he killed his daughter.
Honor-related violence is committed because the honor of the family is supposedly damaged. In order to restore the honor, those who are said to have violated it are threatened or abused, or in the worst case, murdered. According to the aid organization Fier, fatal honor killings occur between 7 and 17 times a year.
The body of the woman was found last May in Lelystad. It was quickly determined that she had died as the result of a crime.
Until recently, the two brothers were in full restrictive custody, which means that they can only have contact with their attorney. Now they can again have contact with the outside world. Omroep Flevoland news reports that the men are 22 and 24 years of age.
A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled in September. |
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