Spain: Moroccan attempts an Honor Killing, stabs his daughter 20 times

Sometimes you look at these young Muslim girls - and you're thinking if she does anything outside of the family - they are going to kill her. You know if their mom is in a burqa - they haven't got much of a chance - for any kind of independent life. This is where governments could step in - because most of these girls are forced into marriage with close relatives (or highest bidder) from the old country - and with the right policies this could easily be stopped.

The Basque Autonomous Police (Ertzaintza) detained on Sunday night in Portugalete (Vizcaya) a 43-year-old man of Maghrebi origin, accused of stabbing his 20-year-old daughter 20 times and of hurting another two sons, according to the Basque Interior Department.

The attack began inside the family’s home, in Ruperto Medina’s st, when the man stabbed his older daughter. Her teenage brothers, another girl and a boy, tried to end the quarrel and got hurt. She has a cut in one hand. He fell off the stairs..
Both of them succeded in fleeing the house asking for help, while the stabbed girl got in one neighbour’s house. But the father followed the first ones and had a hard discussion with his son in the street. According to another neighbour, who was woken up by the “shouts”, everything happened very quickly. Several minutes afterwards, the Police arrived at the scene and arrested the man. “He was shouting like a mad man and was very difficult to handle”, the witness say. (…).

(…) According to the police, the dispute was caused by the cultural clash between the two generations of this family of Maghrebi origin. While the two sisters were very well known and appreciated in their Portugalete district, no one know the father.

Police are investigating on the basis that the father, Moroccan and a very strict Muslim, got angry after discovering a photo of the young 20-year-old Mumai, with a non-Muslim boy who can be her boyfriend.

The girl is now at the hospital, where she needed an emergency operation. According to doctors, she is in a serious condition.

Tea & Politics, Original Spanish