Spain: Moroccan attempts an Honor Killing, stabs 20 times his daughter

Público.es – Detenido tras asestar 20 navajazos a una de sus hijas

The Basque Autonomous Police (Ertzaintza) detained on Sunday night in Portugalete (Vizcaya) a 43-year-old man of Maghrebi origin, accused of stabbing his 20-year-old daughter 20 times and of hurting another two sons, according to the Basque Interior Department.

The attack began inside the family’s home, in Ruperto Medina’s st, when the man stabbed his older daughter. Her teenage brothers, another girl and a boy, tried to end the quarrel and got hurt. She has a cut in one hand. He fell off the stairs..

Both of them succeded in fleeing the house asking for help, while the stabbed girl got in one neighbour’s house. But the father followed the first ones and had a hard discussion with his son in the street. According to another neighbour, who was woken up by the “shouts”, everything happened very quickly. Several minutes afterwards, the Police arrived at the scene and arrested the man. “He was shouting like a mad man and was very difficult to handle”, the witness say. (…).

(…) According to the police, the dispute was caused by the cultural clash between the two generations of this family of Maghrebi origin. While the two sisters were very well known and appreciated in their Portugalete district, no one know the father.

Asesta 20 cuchilladas a su hija al descubrir que salía con un joven que no es musulmán. El Correo

Police are investigating on the basis that the father, Moroccan and a very strict Muslim, got angry after discovering a photo of the young 20-year-old Mumai, with a non-Muslim boy who can be her boyfriend.

via Anclaos, blog that comments that there has been nearly no mention in the Spanish MSM about this horrible crime.

The girl is now at the hospital, where she needed an emergency operation. According to doctors, she is in a serious condition.

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