Did not approve of her Western lifestyle
Two Afghan brothers are charged in a Berlin court with having murdered their sister in an honor killing, dissecting her body, and transporting it in a trunk by train to Bavaria where it was buried. The body was discovered in August.
According to the indictment, the two brothers disapproved of their sister's Western life style and her divorce.
The below article from today's Berliner Morgenpost is translated by Fousesquawk. The photos belowares from Bild Zeitung and are linked in the main article by Berlin Morgenpost.
Murdered Afghan female in suitcase. Charges against brothers
12-27-21
Philipp Siebert
The accused brothers reportedly rode to the Sudkreuz train station with the body of their sister in a suitcase.
Both brothers reportedly killed their sister and took her in a trunk on the train to Bavaria
Berlin. Five months after the death of the Afghan (woman), Maryam H., the Berlin prosecutor's office has brought charges against both of her younger brothers, Sayed and Seyed H. The two 26 and 22-year-old men are accused of having reproached their 34-year-old sister for minor reasons. They reportedly killed the two-time mother because they did not approve of her Western life style-especially with her divorce.
According to the indictment, both brothers lured their sister to a meeting under a pretense and killed her. Maryam died from beating, choking, and having her throat cut. Then they reportedly cut up the body, packed it in a trunk, and rode in a taxi to the Sudkreuz train station. Images from a surveillance camera show both of them with the (trunk) upon boarding the train among many people.
Body was found in August in Bavaria
The destination of the two alleged murderers was Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria, where the older of the two lived. There the body of the 34-year-old was discovered buried on August 5. The two brothers have been in custody since August 3.
The three siblings came from Afghanistan as asylum-seekers to Germany in 2013. Maryam H. was (force) married at just the age of 16 and had two children by her husband. The marriage was allegedly marked by violence, and so, on 2017 she was divorced under German law and took up with another man.
Lifestyle not compatible with "archaic ideas of honor and morality"
Her brothers obviously did not want to accept that. According to the indictment, they wanted "to punish their sister, by this act, for her Western-oriented lifestyle, which did not correspond to their archaic ideas of honor and morality and their image of women." According to earlier statements by investigators, she was especially put under pressure and controlled by one of the brothers, who also lived in Berlin.
The 13-year-old son and the 10-year-old daughter of the murder victim will appear at the trial as co-plaintiffs, whereby they will be represented by the Berlin victim attorney, Roland Weber. Weber is also the victim representative of Berlin Land.
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