The 37-year-old woman finished her evening shift at a care center yesterday at 11.10pm. On her way into her little blue car, she is assaulted by a young man with an immigrant background (an ethnic background other than Danish) who is described as aged between 18 and 19. He fled the scene immediately after the knife murder.
But even if the police will not use words as planned in the initial investigation into the violent murder of the pregnant 37-year-old woman in Holbæk last night, investigation manager Kim Løvkvist says to Ekstra Bladet:
– We suspect that it is targeted.
Precisely for this reason, the police do not fear for people’s safety in the area.
At the same time, the police are investigating the case broadly, it says.
– We do not want to close any doors in advance. We investigate all probable motives from end to end and see if any lights are on, he says.
Honorary?
A colleague of the woman saw the assault and tried to intervene and ran back to the workplace and called for help.
The first patrol to arrive at the scene found the 37-year-old pregnant woman suffering from multiple stab wounds. She was taken to the hospital in Holbæk, but there she was pronounced dead.
They managed to save the little child, who is now at Rikshospitalet. Police did not say how far along the woman was in her pregnancy.
The perpetrator disappeared in an unknown direction. He is described as 18-19 years old, slim and approx. 175 cm tall. He was of a different ethnic origin and wore a short black jacket and a black hat.
It is reasonable to believe that the killing may be honour-related. The woman – who worked as a care worker – had a license and a car, may have been well integrated into the Danish community. If it is an honor killing, the young perpetrator may have been designated by older family members to kill her.
World history judgment
If this is true, then the guilty can expect long prison sentences. Thoughts today thus turn to Denmark’s world-historic verdict on an entire Pakistani family. The 18-year-old Danish-Pakistani Ghazala Khan was shot on the open street in Slagelse in Denmark on 23 September 2005, and her husband Emal Khan was attempted to be killed. Ghazala had recently married the man she loved, a man of Afghan origin. But Ghazala’s family did not agree with her choice of spouse, and the young couple were therefore on the run. The couple feared that the family would take revenge.
Ghazala’s brother, Akthar Abbas, was quickly arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder. In addition, eight others, including a woman, Ghazala’s aunt, were charged with complicity.
The Danish-Pakistani family and their helpers set up sentries, communicating closely to circle Ghazala and her husband. They then baited Ghazala at her weakest point – her hope for forgiveness from those she loved after all, her family. Forgiveness for marrying the one she loved. It was precisely this hope of forgiveness that became Ghazala’s bane. A premeditated murder with nine people involved. The indictment decision is a milestone in world history, and so is the verdict that came down on 27 June: All nine involved were found guilty. The equally historic sentencing came the next day. The nine culprits, including a taxi driver who drove the killer himself, received a total of 120 years in prison, in addition to having to pay millions in compensation to Ghazala’s widower, and two were deported from Denmark, including the one aunt who lured Ghazala into the trap.
This judgment, we believe, sent a very strong signal to people rooted in the culture of honor in Denmark: None of you who are involved in an honor killing at various levels will escape. You are all guilty.
Because honor killing is organized crime, where the elders give the command for the murder to be carried out.
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