Ikram Benhadi and her husband Mamoun came from their house. Morocco peculiar to the Aragonese capitala, they decided to start a shoe repair business here. He soon became known among the residents of the neighborhood. resources not only for his skill in leatherworking, but also for the misfortune of losing a son. They could never have imagined that such a shy 27-year-old would be like this. go to jail for someone’s death and police suspicion that his hands are behind a previous case and that he is trying a third case. All because he believed the house was demonized and didn’t want a house. Bad soul enters babies’ bodies.
The first to die was Sara in 2011, but it wasn’t until November 21, 2014 that she arrived at the health center with little Marwa’s body. Aragon Superior Police Station Homicide Group I saw a common thread deaths after reviewing clinical histories. The third girl, Riham, was rescued thanks to her temporary detention by social services. government Aragon. According to medical reports, in all three cases, girls less than three months old had hypotonia, general bad coloration, vomiting, and a small amount of blood coming out of the mouth.
180 degree rotation, a cultural mediator Before social services, this woman named Amina Kaman met with Ikram and the rest of the family to see what was going on at 19 Florián Rey street, a few meters from the clinic she went to with her already-dead daughter.
“The house has been demonized and it will affect the girls”
During the interview, they told him: “the house was demonized and that was going to impress the girls”. He repeatedly emphasized that Berber rituals are not included in Islam, and pointed out that the solution he offered to them was to listen to CDs all the time. read As the Qur’an’s way of “purging demons”. He also said that if the problem is housing, they should move in with a relative, but they apparently refused and prevented the girls from being alone with Benhadi. Considering this attitude, the mediator admitted that he had failed in his job by meeting with social services. In fact, they considered the possibility of traveling to the north of Morocco, where they came from, to perform some kind of exorcism. An event reminiscent of what happened in Almansa in 1990, When 11-year-old Rosa Fernández Gonzálvez died at the hands of her mother and two neighbors, who believed she was possessed by her father’s spirit.
Djinn are very present in superstitious environments. Some believers claim that these beings interact with humans in the form of robbery, murder, or even falling in love. Therefore, there are people who, similar to Christians, practice exorcism rites in which the possessed person is very aggressive. In the struggle with these beings, one reads the second Surah of the Qur’an, Surah Baqara.
But what was he like? modus operandi? drowning It didn’t matter if Ikram Benhadi was alone or if his husband, mother-in-law Necma or sister-in-law Sureyya were in the room. According to the researchers, they were always on the lookout for feeding them, and during this time, the so-called ritual was performed, according to the researchers, to prevent the Djinn from entering their bodies. It looks like she weakened her lungs by covering her lips.
Marwa’s autopsy revealed that for some reason she died of asphyxic shock. mechanical drowning with drowning. It’s a situation that experts from the Aragon Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Imlcfa) have compared to the death of Sara, the first baby, despite being dead for three years and unable to perform an autopsy. According to their clinical records, they both experienced the same thing.
“I love my girls, I endured 9 months of fainting, vomiting and bleeding, so I can’t do that”
During hearing in court Zaragoza In 2016, Ikram Benhadi called the accusation “barbaric”. “I love my girls, I endured fainting, vomiting and bleeding for 9 months, so I can’t do that,” she continued.
This young woman described her visits to a dozen doctors and hospitalizations each time her daughters fell ill. She assured that minors suffer from these problems from the moment they are born and even in the hospital. “He would turn white, his lips would turn blue and he would vomit.” apostille
Ikram Benhadi’s version was confirmed by all his relatives. They described several cases of drowning in which the mother was not present. Her mother-in-law said, “Merve was hungry, we fed her, changed her diapers, and İkram went to make coffee, but suddenly she started to turn purple and died on us in the health center.”
But Health workers who take care of these girls every time I go to the hospital They didn’t think the same as them. Seeing that the pattern of drowning that little Sara was subjected to was supposedly repeated with Riham and Marwa, they admitted that they suspected her. For example, they were surprised at what he did with some pacifiers: he put the pacifiers in empty boxes and then put them in their mouths.
Some of these respiratory attacks occurred in the hospital when the mother was alone in the room. This situation attracted the attention of health workers who voluntarily came to prolong their stay in the intensive care unit in order to protect Riham. all this doubts They were directed to interview a social worker, requesting security cameras be installed in the room, and instructing her not to hold babies to her chest. The images did not confirm his suspicions.
For the two deaths and the attempt, the prosecutor’s office even demanded 55 years in prison, but the provincial court that tried this young woman dismissed her. 18 years in prison. He was only convicted of murdering Marwa, although in his sentence there is “likelihood, even possibility” that he committed the three crimes, there is no conclusive evidence other than in the third case. The Supreme Court also had an influence on this and upheld the sentence, noting that psychological, anthropological or psychiatric reports “show an utter failure to throw a clear light on this point, which is surrounded by a halo of mystery and fueled by similar premises.” They affirm that he has two sisters, while emphasizing that the “unknown” about the reasons for causing the defendant’s daughter’s death “doesn’t overshadow” the certainty that he was the cause.