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Archive for April 13th, 2006

The Verdict

Posted by hardyberlin on 13th April 2006

Just a few minutes ago the verdict in the "honor killing" of Hatun Sürücü was brought out. Do you remember? She was a young Turkish-German woman, which was brought with the age of 15 back to Turkey to marry someone she even didn’t know. Her parents pressed her to marry him against her will.

Later, 23 years old, she left her husband with her daughter, got divorced, and returned to Berlin to life and work here. Her family was upset, they saw there "family honor" disgraced. So last year, in February she was killed by her youngest brother, with 3 shoots during daytime in the middle of the streets of Berlin.

Her youngest brother only pulled the trigger, the older ones got the weapon and where making sure that they could escape and no police was there. So they where prosecuted for conspiracy of murder.

The prosecutor wanted that they get for conspiracy of murder 10 years for the youngest and lifelong imprisonment for the older ones.

And now the verdict: the youngest brother got 9 years and 3 month(cause he was just 18 years old) and the older ones got off because the prosecutor couldn’t proof a conspiracy, the judge said. In my eyes this is a scandal, everyone knows that it was a conspiracy, and the youngest brother only pulled the trigger because they have known that he will get of with a short time in prison(that is the law here if you are younger than 21). So the older brothers, these damn bastards, are smiling, they used our law system to get off. And they where laughing in court. I only hope that this verdict will be revised. If not, I hope that someone will stand up and give them what they deserve! And this only can be the death penalty.

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