Life imprisonment was the judge’s decision for the father of 15-year-old Büsra (PI reported). It was not without instructing us that it truly didn’t concern an “honor killing,” even though the man at first admitted to stabbing his daughter because she would not go the “Muslim way.” She was later stabbed because the murderer confused the sleeping girl with an intruder, afterwards out of concern.

The man privately murdered the child out of pure concern. Of course the act had nothing to do with honor or Islam:

The District Court for the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt recognizes the proof that Mehmet Ö stabbed his daughter Büsra last June with a butcher’s knife. The judge sentenced the Dönner (gyros) vendor to life imprisonment on the basis of murder.

“It is by this horrible tragedy that the 15-year-old Büsra lost her life,” said the presiding judge, Elisabeth Ott, on Wednesday. “A family has been destroyed.”

The defendant accepted the judgment of murder nearly without emotion, the face down and hands folded. He had stabbed his sleeping daughter Büsra to death on the night of June 24, 2009, in the family home at the edge of downtown Schweinfurt — with 68 jabs of the knife.

“This has nothing at all to do with a classical ‘honor killing’,” Ott said in the basis of sentencing. It is much more that the 46-year-old killed the young girl “because he could not bear that Büsra had entered a relationship with a young man.” The Western-oriented girl didn’t bow to the wishes of her father, actually she opposed them. The Turk perceived this as a deep sickness, its consequences being rage and anger, the president of the chamber elucidated.

Büsra’s frendship with the 17-year-old young man was a harmless relationship — nothing more than holding hands. For the father, however, this was already too much. “He was afraid that she, in his eyes, would go the wrong way,” Ott said. “He feared being abandoned by her. In his eyes, Büsra was no longer controllable.”

Mehmet Ö, who has lived since 1991 in Germany, had described his relationship to his daughter at the begging of the trial as increasingly difficult. She was disrespectful, impatient and obstinate; young men were constantly appearing in front of the family home. He also monitored her cell phone.

At the beginning of the trial, Ö admitted to the act but presented it as accidental. He figured that there was an intruder in the house on the night of the crime, so he then stormed into the kitchen, grabbed the knife and went to stabbing.

In his closing statement, the defendant said, “I killed her in order to protect her.” He feared that Büsra would be kidnapped, or something else might happen to her.
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Mehmet Ö, who has lived since 1991 in Germany, had described his relationship to his daughter at the begging of the trial as increasingly difficult. She was disrespectful, impatient and obstinate; young men were constantly appearing in front of the family home. He also monitored her cell phone.

So, really noble motives… Perhaps that’s why there were no other “special charges of guilt” established, for a private act surely can’t be murder.

(Translation of German PI-article by Anders Denken)

Life imprisonment was the judge's decision for the father of 15-year-old Büsra (PI reported). It was not without instructing us that it truly didn't concern an "honor killing," even though the man at first admitted to stabbing his daughter because she would not go the "Muslim way." She was later stabbed because the murderer confused the sleeping girl with an intruder, afterwards out of concern. The man privately murdered the child out of pure concern. Of course the act had nothing to do with honor or Islam: The District Court for the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt recognizes the proof that Mehmet Ö stabbed his daughter Büsra last June with a butcher's knife. The judge sentenced the Dönner (gyros) vendor to life imprisonment on the basis of murder. "It is by this horrible tragedy that the 15-year-old Büsra lost her life," said the presiding judge, Elisabeth Ott, on Wednesday. "A family has been destroyed." The defendant accepted the judgment of murder nearly without emotion, the face down and ha

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