Kurdish woman shot dead at a wedding in Germany after she refused to enter an arranged marriage with her cousin
Thursday March 17, 2016
A Kurdish father identified as Ghazi H, whose 21-year-old
daughter, Shilan was shot dead at a wedding in Germany has posted a
picture of her in a pool of blood, the Sun reports.
The 50-year-old is demanding justice over the brutal killing of Shilan. Posting
the graphic image on Facebook, he claimed his daughter had been
murdered by relatives after rejecting an arranged marriage.
The
devastated father said that his Kurdish family had fled Iraq and headed
to Germany when his daughter was just three years old. Shilan had grown
up to be a self-confident young woman with German
citizenship, studying property management at college in Hanover.
"It is with the deepest sense of loss and pain that I announce the
loss of my daughter. She died in a pool of her own blood, as a victim of
a treacherous tradition," he posted on Facebook.
Ghazi claimed
that two of his own brothers, Numan and Hassan, had tried to arrange a
forced marriage for the young woman to her cousin Sefin, 22, (pictured) but she had
refused. Shilan told her father that she did not love Sefin and rejected the arranged marriage.
"She begged me to do something and so I cancelled the engagement. But
Numan and his son Sefin, the killer, refused to accept it. They were
determined to take revenge to ensure honour was preserved, Ghazi said.
Ghazi
said Sefin later shot Shilan with three bullets to the head. Police are
allegedly still hunting him but the gun has been found.
"What
they did was a terrible crime, against an innocent victim. They seem to
forget that we are living here in Europe," Ghazi said.
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