Monday, around eight o’clock in the evening, Saray learned the sad news. His mother was killed in a wasteland in Retamar. “He had time to dispose of the body. I think he didn’t want to report and that justice must be done because my mother was taken from me, and in the most traumatic way possible. She was young, she was 38 years old and had a whole life ahead of her. Me, I’m 20 years old, it’s not fair…”, she burst into tears to the media IDEAL. She denies that the victim and her murderer, already in prison, “met through Tinder, a dating application”. “She supposedly knew him, but I don’t think he was a long-time friend, otherwise the whole family would have known him,” she continues.
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Currently, the file is under investigation. The 20-year-old insisted that she and her family would fight to have this case recognized as an act of “gender violence, because there was a relationship”. She remembers the last conversation she had with her mother. “Around 1:54 a.m. (last Monday), I wrote to him. I had an intuition, but it didn’t answer me, says Saray. I felt something had happened, but I thought maybe she hadn’t seen my message.” Since the sad news was announced, she and her family have been in a state of shock. “The way things happened was very brutal,” she laments.
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While waiting for justice to be done, Saray faces uncertainty: where will his mother’s body be buried, according to the Muslim rite? The family will collect Meri’s body from the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Her wish is that Meri’s body be buried in Almería where she lived all her life, but she fears that the body will be repatriated to Casablanca, Morocco. “We want to bury him in Almería, so that my family and I can go see my mother. […] I want my mother here, with my family and with those who loved her. “, begged the victim’s daughter.
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