A Somali migrant is due to stand trial in Sweden next week for the
murder of his pregnant girlfriend he is suspected of strangling to death
to hide from his family the fact he was in a relationship with a
non-Muslim, non-Somali woman.
Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, 21, was arrested in Örebro on May 2
last year after his girlfriend, 20-year-old Saga, was found dead in her
apartment. She had died from asphyxiation and had been seven months
pregnant with Ibrahim’s child.
“I believe the murder took place in the context of an honor killing
because the man wanted to preserve or restore his honor and that of his
family by killing the woman who was carrying his child,” said public
prosecutor Elisabeth Anderson in a statement to journalists shortly
after the arrest.
The suspect has been in pre-trial detention for 11 months while police officers conducted their investigations into the murder.
An examination of text messages on Ibrahim’s phone revealed the
disgust his Somali mother, also living in Sweden, had toward the notion
her son was in a relationship with a White woman.
“Take the bus or stay with your loved one. Don’t come home. I am no
longer your mother. I am Muslim and Somali,” one message from his mother
read after her car often used by Ibrahim was spotted outside Saga’s
address.
“I am also Muslim and Somali, and I do not go home to a
white person,” Ibrahim replied, denying the relationship with Saga, a
Swedish woman of Thai origin.
In another row over the relationship, the suspect vowed to return to
Somalia with his mother to make amends for upsetting her. “Whatever you
decide, I follow, mom,” he wrote.
Following the indictment, Anderson said it was the prosecution’s case
that the murder was an honor killing to save Ibrahim the ignominy of
revealing the truth about Saga’s pregnancy to his family.
“He has tried to keep the relationship a secret. The suspect’s family
did not accept that he was with a White girl and believed he had been
exposed to strong emotional influence,” the prosecutor told Swedish
media.
Further communications found between the suspect and his victim on
the night before the murder revealed how Ibrahim had agreed to tell his
family about the relationship.
“Feels like I can almost feel my heartbeat all the way down to my stomach walla,” he sent to Saga.
“Just take it easy, they’ll be fine babe,” she replied.
However, over the course of the evening, it is the prosecution’s case
that the suspect changed his mind and visited his girlfriend’s
apartment before strangling her to death.
In a composed message that was never sent, Ibrahim wrote, “Forgive
me, I really feel sick from all this, sorry, but I can’t handle this, I
can be there and help if something is needed, but I can’t tell my
family.”
The suspect has denied the murder, and his mother told police
officers she would have no issue with the ethnicity of her son’s
girlfriend or future child.
Elisabeth Fritz, a lawyer for the relatives of the deceased, vowed to
“work hard for a conviction, a life sentence, and compensation” for the
“cruel murder.”
The trial begins on April 10.
Source: Remix News
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