SWITZERLAND: Muslim who hacked teenage daughter to death with an axe to stand trial
A Swiss prosecutor has described as a “veritable slaughter” the vicious axe murder of a 16-year-old girl by her 53-year-old Pakistani Muslim father, who believed his daughter had tarnished her family’s honor.
16-year-old hacked to death by Pakistani Muslim father
The charge sheet presented by prosecutor Ulrich Krättli suggests he will call for the accused to be given life in prison, the maximum sentence under Swiss law, when the high-profile case goes to trial on March 14th. He will also be tried for allegedly trying to electrocute his daughter three weeks earlier.
On May 10th 2010, 16-year-old Swera was picked up at a Zurich police station by both her parents. She had been held there by police after she was arrested for a minor theft.
Once back at their apartment in Höngg, on the outskirts of the city, a heated argument broke out between father and daughter. The girl said she wanted to leave home permanently and started to pack her things. She then went down to the basement of the building to get a pair of shoes. While she was gone, her father allegedly retrieved an axe from the balcony and hid it in the bedroom he shared with his wife.
Once she was back in the apartment, the girl went into her parents’ bedroom to pick up some of her belongings. When she bent down to get some things from the wardrobe, her father hit her with the axe on the back of the head, the prosecutor says. The man struck his daughter 19 times with the axe: 12 times with the blade and seven with the blunt end.
The teenager did not die instantly, but lay on the ground in agonising pain for several minutes until her life finally slipped away. The father left the axe between her legs, pointing to the feet, a gesture Krättli does not want to interpret, but that usually has sexual connotations and expresses the motives behind the murder, newspaper Tages Anzeiger reports.
Father being led away from the scene by police
After washing his hands, he left the apartment and called his wife to say he had killed his daughter. Fifteen minutes later, he called the police, who arrested him shortly after near his apartment.
In an interview with newspaper Blick, Swera’s boyfriend explained that the girl’s parents had strongly disapproved of her relationship with him, primarily because he was a Christian. The boy said she was desperate to get away from her parents and had already sought help from a local youth shelter.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant killed his daughter because she had violated his archaic values and had brought shame on the family. Krättli says the Pakistani man had planned the killing “in cold blood”.
On April 20th, the pair had argued after the girl’s father suspected she had been smoking marijuana. Seizing his chance while she was in the bathroom, he pushed her into the bathtub, turned on the tap and threw a hairdryer into the water.
He wanted to electrocute her, the prosecutor alleges, but his attempt failed because of an in-built security system in the appliance to prevent electric shocks upon contact with water. On that occasion, the 16-year-old girl managed to get away before running to a friend’s home in her wet clothes.
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"According to the prosecutor, the defendant killed his daughter because she had violated his archaic values and had brought shame on the family. Krättli says the Pakistani man had planned the killing “in cold blood”."
Obviously these archaic Islamic values do not include murder.
in india honour killings are casual thing. is indian constitution encourage it? dont be fool
Has this any relevance? We are mourning for this poor 16 year old girl ,and yes India is doing all it can. What I have observed particularly is that the Muslim folk drag another country (Non-Muslim) and justify their deed.
Look Mr. Mohammed no matter what you say about India, THIS ACT is dastardly. We had a similar incident in Toronto where in a muslim girl, Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her taxi-driver father for not wearing Hijab!
In India, we recognize this evil and do not justify like you muslims!
Get your muslim and all other muslim a**es out of India and then we will have this conversation again. India is harbouring the same muslim population as Pakistan. What do you think this filth will do to India?
Muslims got their land Pakistan but still are not leaving India. Muslims are living because non-muslims are human. Otherwise muslims wouldn't exist.
"is indian constitution encourage it"
It's not about constitution that we discuss. Hindu religion doesn't call for killing whoever leaves hindu religion. Islam does.
READ QURAN.
Under Sharia law it is permissible for a parent to kill a child. (see Umdat al-Salik o.1-2 – orthodox Sunni authoritative source from Al Azhar "Reliance of the Traveler"). Worldwide, Muslims commit 91% of honor killings.
Axing ones own offspring to death is one of the daily Muslim practices in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and in many other Arab-Muslim world. Children of Muslims and their Muslim mothers do not have freedom of their own. The law Muhammad the prophet left for the Muslims is the Sharia law, and this barbaric law does not protect the Muslim women and their daughters from being raped and murdered by their own Muslim husbands and fathers. It is very disturbing and shocking to see and hear the acts of terror in one’s own home. What can we do? Nothing because we are almost outnumbered by Muslims.
The most basic of animal instincts is to protect and rear its young, it would be an almost impossible feat to reverse that genetic trait in any animal. Quite uniquely thou Islam as a religion has managed to consistently turn parents into murderers of their own children. Which ever part of the globe they inhabit. host nations have found themselves having to deal with relational murder on the one hand and increased birth rates on the other. The sad thing is thou is the fact that each one of these beautiful girls (lights) who have their lives so brutally cut short is a potential Wafa Sultan, Nonie Darwish or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, what a sad loss.
Muslims are always the first to try to escape to other countries for economic reasons. Yet they hate their host countries way of life to the point of lunacy. Why take the trouble of raising your children in foreign lands if you are not ready to absorb foreign values? If I go to Saudi Arabia to live with my wife, chances are that my children would end up marrying Muslims ( God 4bid). Why should it be a death sentence for them?
The scoundrel Muham(mad) created his cult to promote his personal interest and to satisfy his egos. Even in this modern world, muslims still stick to the 1400 year old barbaric practices. The victims are first the muslims (muslimas and their daughters top the list) themselves and then the kafirs.
The domocratic countries should come forward to ban islam and should not stifle the voice for freedom (like the indian idiotic judge).
Very disgusting. Muslims are likely to say that islam does not allaow this type of act, what is true, however is that they get thier motivation from islam and protection, in the form of tacit approval, from islamic governments.
Where are taquia players of Islam? Islam= peace or piece?
Islam is promoting, instilling and shaping a human to be a wild beast. Sorry, I do not mean to insult the beasts. Sadly, the West is very slow learner and observer. What are the westerners waiting for? Amazing.
Terrible that the poor girl lost her life, but the more devout muslims that keep pulling this shit off the more they expose Islam for the hellish cult it is. Just hope the naive gullible pacifists start to wake up that this is what Islam truly is.
Muslism are allwoedto marry sons to Christian girls, but not visa vera. this would violate Islamic surpremacy (and help increase the infideal population, which te MOOSELMS want to deflate).
Quran directs Muslims not to allow their daughters n sisters to marry non-Muslims. However, it encourages Muslims to marry non-Muslim women. Height of hypocrisy!
I’d say my piece but it wouldn’t be adding anything to the discussion. Very glad we’re all in agreement on this. My wife comes from one of the more peaceful muslim countries (I guess they practice it the way a lot of us claim Christianity but don’t walk the walk). Anyway, she claims it’s a crazy few who think this way but obviously whole countries full of these mofos is waaay more than a crazy few.
Avax I am not going to dispute that your wife may be peaceable – you know her and I don't.
Is she Muslima? If so, are you, and if not, how come she was allowed to marry you?
There may indeed be comparatively few who incite the murders and riots, but what about those violent robots who follow them? There are many explanations, psychological and social, even physiological as to why Muslims seem unable to control their anger.
I too know peaceable Muslims who are good neighbors and, so far as I can tell, good citizens and members of my community. However I do have concerns that, if push came to shove and heaven forbid sharia should take over, they would go with the herd as so many do* or stand up for what is morally right even if it put them in danger..
*There is of course precedent in Islam for Muslims siding with each other against kufar. Tthe Muslim concept of umma, or the sense of belonging to the worldwide Islamic community is one of the chief principles of Islam. This actively discourages the observant Muslim from interacting freely with the wider community. One interpretation of the Qur'anic verse – "Believers, do not seek the friendship of the infidels (kafirun) and those who were given the Book before you, who have made your religion a jest and a diversion. 5:56 – is that every practising Muslim's loyalty should be to his religion first, and to any other state or political entity secondFurthermore, a true believer of Islam should not follow the rules and customs of other governments unless they are in accord with Islamic law (shari'a). Where they are not, then shari'a law must be adhered to.
We hear about this happening in the west every so often. But what about in the Islamic paradises, such as African and arab counties? Surely these and worse go down and are never reported. Education about the prophet is key here. Simply showing the true nature of Islam will bring its end faster.
Their Islamic clerics should be accomplices of this murder. Muslim clerics are responsible for these atrocities because they accept, justify, and promote these violent acts. For violent actions of this kind they should set up fatwas to kill the perpetrators otherwise they will become responsible.
Four women were honour-murdered in Canada in June, 2009. Three beautiful daughters and the "first wife" were killed by the father, his polygamous "second wife" and son/brother. Their trial has been in the headlines for weeks and the closing arguments will be presented on Tuesday, January 24. Google "Shafia trial" for more information. It's fascinating.
The murderers have lied to police, lied on the stand, and have an air of arrogant supremacism about them which suggests they believe they are smarter than the police and the Canadian justice system. The second wife even lectured the court for suspecting and actually arresting members of such a "respectful family", and accused police of inventing evidence. Much of the evidence is circumstantial, but I believe the Crown has proved its case. I hope the jury agrees.