France: Syrian refugee Hussein Ahmed goes on trial for the rape and murder of 24-year-old Johanna Blanes, who was found naked in a tunnel – His lawyer invokes the cultural difference between Syria and France

Photo: Johanna Blanes

The first day of the tunnel murder trial focused on analysing the personality of the accused. Hussein Ahmed presents himself as “helpful, friendly, empathetic”. “Impulsive, lying and manipulative”, the experts attest to him.

(…) He claims to own a “very nice house” in Syria. He is homeless and housed in a communal building with other Kurds. He even forges his ex-wife’s identity papers when the couple arrives in France with their two children in 2016. She is only 15 years old. He claims she is 22.

(…) For the defence, lawyer Frédéric Dutin regrets that “his social environment is limited to his ex-wife and her statements”, an ex-wife who incidentally denounces rapes committed by the accused. Addressing the jury, he continues: “The crux of this trial is the cultural difference between Syria and France and the background of this displaced migrant.”

(…) The first police officers to intervene give CPR to the victim, “whose body is already cold”. “I tried to give her mouth-to-mouth, but there was nothing left to hold her. She was like dislocated. Her jaw was dislocated,” reports a police officer, moved by his painful memories. “I have seen many people in an impossible condition in my 27 years in the profession, but she was like slaughtered. Blood was pouring from the back of her head, her ears, her nose and her mouth.” Sud Ouest

She was found on Sunday July 7 in a narrow pedestrian tunnel near Mont-de-Marsan, exposed and lifeless. A suspect was arrested on Thursday July 11 by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Gironde region. According to our information, he is a man of Syrian origin in his twenties.

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The body of the young woman, Johanna Blanes, showed signs of strangulation and blows to the head and neck.

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Three close friends of Johanna Blanes wanted to organise a funeral march on September 7, two months to the day after the discovery of the body.

Johanna suffered from a slight mental disability. RTL

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