Islam comes first, then emotions.
The murderer had sent a text message to his mother: “I swear to Allah, I will not date a white person”.
Public prosecutor Elisabeth Anderson is today bringing charges against Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim for the murder of his girlfriend Saga Forsgren Elneborg last spring. This was announced by the public prosecutor’s office in a press release.
Motive: Islamic honour
“The murder took place against the background of an honour killing,” Anderson said in a press release.
The indictment against the 21-year-old will be presented to the district court in Örebro this morning.
“Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim killed Saga Forsgren Elneborg by suffocating and strangulating her by applying pressure to her neck, which impaired the trachea and blood supply to the head,” the prosecutor writes in his indictment.
The 20-year-old woman was murdered in her bed on the night of April 28-29 last year.
According to the public prosecutor, the 21-year-old Somali man was driven by a sense of honour when he brutally murdered his girlfriend, who was pregnant with their unborn son, in the middle of the night. The unborn child also died.
“I think the murder was driven by a sense of honour because the man wanted to preserve or restore his honour and that of his family by killing the woman who was carrying his child,” said Elisabeth Anderson, prosecutor and head of the preliminary investigation.
Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim was convicted of attempted theft and illegal driving in the past and originates from Somalia. He arrived in Sweden in October 2012 and was granted Swedish citizenship in 201
Devin Rexvid, who researches questions of oppression and violence in connection with the concept of honour at Stockholm University, was called as a witness. A statement written by him also provides the basis for the indictment.
According to Rexvid’s statement, a son who chooses the wrong wife dishonours his family. The son may be pressurised to break off the relationship with the woman, as she is considered unsuitable as a mother and wife.
To restore his honour, the man often has to kill the woman who is close to him and who is believed to have dishonoured him. The man’s right to respect therefore takes precedence and is more important than the woman’s right to life. A man without honour is regarded as a “living dead man” and considers himself as such.
Samnytt / La Suédoise de 20 ans sort avec un Somalien : même enceinte de leur fils, elle est tuée au nom d’Allah – Résistance Républicaine (resistancerepublicaine.com)