This migrant is a product of a culture of violence that mandates the beating of disobedient women (cf. Qur’an 4:34). If she was unfaithful to him, as he suspected, she was disobeying the order mandated by Allah, and consequently was an unbeliever, to be beheaded (cf. Qur’an 47:4).

Did Swiss authorities really think that he would leave at the door the attitudes and assumptions that he had imbibed for years?

“Qerim B. (62) beheaded his stepdaughter with a cleaver,” translated from “Qerim B. (62) enthauptete Stieftochter mit Küchenbeil,” Blick, March 16, 2022:

The indictment for the murder in Oey reads like a gruesome thriller: Qerim B.* (62) allegedly beat the mother of his four children to death with a hammer in a scrap yard in March 2020 and then “almost completely decapitated” her with a 35 cm long kitchen cleaver. He allegedly hit the head of Vana V.* (†31) with the two tools a total of 14 times and her neck four times.

Since then, B. has been in prison: At first he was in pre-trial detention, but in the meantime he has been transferred to prison. On Wednesday, he will now be tried at the Regional Court Oberland in Thun.

The trial at the regional court in Thun starts this morning with the questioning of the perpetrator. The suspected murderer willingly gives information to the judges in his mother tongue, the translator mediates because he does not speak German. The 62-year-old confessed, but he said he could not remember the exact course of events due to his diabetes – he had had blackouts: “When I grabbed it, I was not aware that it was a hammer. I forgot myself, no longer felt anything, no longer saw anything”.

The argument that preceded the crime was about the separation that he did not accept and a possible other man in Vana V.*’s (†31) life. “She told me that she had found a car mechanic in Biel who would replace a sensor, the front and rear brakes completely and even the control unit if necessary, and all for free. I’ve always been jealous anyway, and who changes all these things for you for free?” he testified. In addition, he had seen a hickey on her neck. In earlier interrogations, he is said to have said: “The moment she told me about the mechanic, she broke me.

In her plea, the prosecutor stated that Qerim B. did not seem to regret his crime and only felt sorry for himself. The “patriarch” had been hurt in his pride when Vana V. had fled to the women’s shelter with the children. His attitude had been very old-fashioned, for example, he had regarded his wife as a “possession”: “His wife is not allowed to work, does not have to put on make-up and should run the household at home.

She then quoted entries from the diary of the woman who was killed: “I have no air left and feel totally exploited, as if I were a slave.” And to her stepsister she allegedly said: “During the day I am his cleaning lady, in the evening his slut.” But Qerim B. apparently saw things differently. During his questioning in court on Wednesday, he said: “We loved each other. If she hadn’t loved me, she wouldn’t have come to my workplace.” During the trial, the Bosnian is said to have said that Vana V. destroyed his life with the separation. Therefore, according to the prosecutor, the motive for the cruel act was revenge.