"Sharia court" accused of sentencing a Muslim woman to death for adultery in Catalonia, Spain

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An "Islamic court", he sat in Valls, Catalonian town near Tarragona, and sentenced to death a woman accused of adultery under Sharia law? The Mossos (Catalan autonomous police) are in any case, giving credit to the story of a young woman claiming to have been abducted in March while she was shopping, held for two days in an abandoned building, then judged by a tribunal of "twenty men in turbans" and sentenced to death.

Aged 30 years, a few weeks pregnant at the material time, the young North Africans have enjoyed a moment of confusion to slip away from his captors and take refuge in a nearby bar.

After eight months of investigation, spinning and wiretapping, police arrested November 14, ten people of North African origin suspected of being involved in what investigators describe as "Islamic court of honor . Seven men are in jail, two others and a woman have been released under judicial control in early December.

Indicted for "kidnapping, conspiracy and attempted murder, all proclaim their innocence, but they are likely to twenty-three years in prison. According to police sources quoted by the press, they belong to the Salafist movement, increasingly influential in the mosques of this region where there is a large Muslim community.

The revelation of the affair "Valls court" has aroused the unanimous reprobation of the heads of Islamic associations: "It is not an application of the Sharia, but of medieval practices that are no longer in force hand and more akin to a crime of honor, "responded Abdennur Prado, the Junta Islamica Catalan, adding that" no Salafist group has yet claimed responsibility for the courts in our country. "

A number of "incidents"

According to many accounts, groups of fundamentalists would attack women not wearing the veil or frequenting bars. They would put pressure on their parents or husbands. Recently, a young Moroccan was attacked because he had played football with young non-Muslims in his village. "While many victims are reluctant to file complaints, incidents involving these" morality squads "multiply" said a senior counterterrorism daily El Periodico.

The secular Muslim associations of Catalonia pointing out the responsibility of government, who would not take seriously their warnings: "For three years we denounce these extremists who use force to impose their religious ideas, said Mohammed Alami , chairman of the Association of Friends of the Moroccan people. But the Catalan administration has left the field open to these ideas the more radical Islam. "

Le Monde