“It’s a cruel death. My daughter could have been pregnant […] It’s a double murder. Please, we want justice for my daughter, that she stay in prison all her life and not come out. Justice, nothing more,” Souad Hamouchy, the victim’s mother, told the press during the demonstration organized in Mercy Square, in the Los Molinos district of Almeria.
Meri was killed on December 30 by Francisco SB, a 28-year-old man she had met in September. “He not only killed her, he burned her and dumped her body. We want him to be in prison for the rest of his life because he doesn’t deserve to be on the streets. We are devastated and he also left a motherless daughter,” Souad added, referring to his 20-year-old granddaughter.
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While awaiting the results of the autopsy which will reveal the exact cause of Meri’s death, her family insists that she could have been three months pregnant, maintaining that the victim made this confession to friends in an audio message before his death.
-Meri’s body was transferred to a Muslim cemetery in Valencia due to lack of space in Malaga and Murcia. Faced with this situation, Souad invited the competent authorities to build a Muslim cemetery in Almería. “I don’t want to send him to Morocco because I have lived in this country for 35 years… We don’t need to travel to visit a loved one,” she said.
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