2022/06/08
12:40 am
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Security forces in Tunisia were able to arrest a Tunisian who killed his wife a few weeks ago with a knife, on the pretext of her homosexuality.
According to local media, the judicial police force and the tires of the National Security Center in the western suburb of La Marsa managed to arrest the 52-year-old murderer, while the victim is 39 years old, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior.
The spokesperson for the General Administration of National Security, Brigadier General Walid Hakima, said in a statement to Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM that the operation room on the region received a notification stating that the El-Manji Salim El-Morsa Hospital had arrived, a woman exposed to severe violence, and she died as a result of being stabbed five times in different parts of her body.
Investigations revealed that the cause of the crime was due to family disputes, following the husband claimed that he discovered his wife’s sexual perversion following years of marriage.
He stabbed her and then took her to the hospital. As a result, on Monday morning, the husband stabbed his wife in their home in the Blue Sea area in the western marina, with a sharp instrument (a knife), then took her in his private car to Al-Manji Selim Hospital, and fled.
The judicial police squad and the National Security Center in the western marina were able to identify the whereregardings of the murderer husband in the vicinity of the hospital and arrest him.
By presenting him to the headquarters of the Judicial Police Force and interrogating him, the husband confessed to committing the murder, stressing that he did so because of her sexual inclinations, as he put it.
The crime instrument (knife) was seized following it was found at the crime scene, and in coordination with the representative of the Public Prosecution, permission was given to keep the accused and charge him with premeditated murder.
(We are all Companions) In another context, Tunisia witnessed a similar murder last Ramadan, which sparked widespread anger on social media, and the hashtag (We are all Companions) invaded Tunisia at the time.
This is following the Tunisian young woman, Rebekah Al-Sharni, was killed by her husband, by firing squad, on the Night of Power.
Tunisian media reported at the time that a security man killed his wife, accompanied by shooting her with his work pistol, which he took home with him.
The victim, Rifqa, 26, had turned to the police two days before her murder, but she had given up her right to sue her husband for the violence she was subjected to.
The bereaved wife, before her murder, submitted a report to the Tunisian police in the El Kef governorate, along with a medical certificate documenting her 21-day stay for treatment in a hospital due to the physical harm caused to her by spousal violence.
He took revenge on her following being tried on charges of violence. On May 7, the couple appeared before the court. Rebekah Charny waived her personal right to sue her husband, but the latter raised his gun in her face in retaliation for informing the Tunisian security and judicial authorities of what he had done, and he killed her.
The murder of Charney’s companion, coldly, shocked Tunisian civil society, which strongly condemned the violence that took her life at the hands of her husband.
