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An "Honor" Killing in Germany
Race; Posted on: 2008-05-25
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By Barbara Hans in Hamburg
Ahmad O. stabbed his sister more than 20 times because the 16-year-old
girl
didn't live her life according to his values. Women's rights advocate
Seyran
Ates is now calling for German society to intensify its efforts to stop
honor
killings. "A girl isn't a whore if she goes out," she says.
Morsal O. was 16, a young girl with joie de vivre. She laughed a lot and
she
was a go-getter. She was a good student, had ambition and a lot ahead of
her
in life. But she was murdered on Friday, May 9. Her 23-year-old brother
Ahmad,
with the help of a cousin, lured her to a parking lot near a subway
station in
the German ****t city of Hamburg under a false pretense and stabbed her 20
times with a knife.
If Morsal had known she would be coming face to face with her brother, she
probably wouldn't have gone that evening. The two hadn't been on talking
terms
for quite some time, and Ahmed had threatened his sister repeatedly. Just
before her murder, Morsal had sought refuge from her family, who moved to
Germany from Afghanistan 13 years ago, at a number of city social
facilities,
most recently living for more than a year in a youth safe house. But she
never
succeeded in breaking off contact with her family.
For more than an hour, emergency doctors fought to save Morsal's life, but
she
died on the way to the hospital. The girl's parents rushed to the scene,
but
they weren't allowed to attend to their daughter because they had
forgotten
their IDs in the midst of the turmoil.
Morsal died alone.
Killer: "My Sisters Are My Life"
"Maybe he did it out of love," Moral's cousin Mujda said, when asked why
Ahmad
stabbed his sister that night. Mudja O. gave an extensive interview to
SPIEGEL
TV following the crime, discussing the stabbing and her cousin's possible
motives for the killing. "We spoke to him and he told us, 'My sisters are
my
life. She should be put away before anything happens to her. The last
sentence
that we heard from him was that he loved his sister."
It was not the first time Ahmad, who worked in an auto parts store, had
come
to the attention of the police for violent acts, either. In police
circles, he
was known as a serial offender, constantly in trouble for beatings and
even
stabbings. Morsal had even tried to get charges pressed against her
brother
with the police after he repeatedly attacked her, but she later withdrew
them.
In the SPIEGEL TV interview, her cousin says that Morsal "simply wanted
more
freedom." She wanted to lead her own life and not the one her parents had
planned for her. "She was actually given a lot of freedom, in my opinion.
She
had some piercings, for example. Her parents didn’t say anything about it.
She
could wear what she wanted -- even if she wasn't allowed to wear a
miniskirt
to school."
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