Palestinian family in Sweden wanted to kill their daughter for wanting to live like a Westerner.
A father, mother and two sons are on trial in Sweden for kidnapping the 20-year-old girl who refused to accept the strict religious and family control she had endured since childhood.
Image of the girl taken by the family
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On 30 April, several witnesses alerted the police in the Swedish town of Hallsberg after seeing how Two men were dragging a young woman into a car.. According to the Swedish media outlet Samnytt, one of the pedestrians followed the vehicle and provided its location to the officers, who intercepted it in less than ten minutes.
Inside the car were five members of the same Palestinian family who had been living in Örebro since 2020: the father (58), the mother (54), two adult sons and their 20-year-old daughter, the victim, who showed signs of struggle and distress. They now face trial, accused of attempting to murder the girl.
She dreamed of living like a Western woman.
The investigation has revealed that the young woman had lived under constant surveillance. Forced to wear the veil, she could not go out alone or freely choose her friends. Her aspiration was to train as a social worker and to lead an independent life, but the family flatly rejected it.
According to social services documents cited, in 2023 the girl was taken against her will to Gaza, from where only He was able to escape through Egypt when the war broke out.. Already in Sweden, he took refuge in Various women's refuges, but the family repeatedly located her, even going so far as to intercept her SIM card and hack her email and social media accounts.
«We have to cut off his head,» but as a cultural expression.
Among the evidence, the police found mobile phone messages showing the hostility of the father and brothers towards the young woman's independence. In one of the texts, The father wrote in Arabic: «We have to cut off his head!«. To the police, he insisted that it was not a literal threat but a cultural expression, a way of speaking.
In other messages, the older brother criticised that the girl «Love Sweden and being Swedish», while the sister suggested to take her abroad clandestinely.
Honour crimes are already common in Sweden.
The honour crimes, or honour-related violence, encompass a range of coercive and violent actions — including forced marriages, strict surveillance, threats, deprivation of liberty and murders — motivated by the idea that an act (rebellion, disapproved relationships, “inappropriate” behaviour) dishonours the family. In Sweden, these cases They are distinguished from domestic violence because they are often carried out collectively., with cultural justifications or “honour motives”. A few months ago, another case was tried inAn entire family was involved in killing a woman who wanted to divorce..
The Swedish government and official bodies say that these acts are not exclusive to any group but They are more frequently perceived in Muslim communities.. The Swedish Police began to specifically record these crimes in 2019, and up to November 2021 Some 4,500 suspected cases of honour-related violence had been reported..
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