Austrian Turk Cuts Off Man’s Penis, Then Blasts Him In ‘Honor Killing’
VIENNA, Austria — Austrian authorities said Thursday they arrested an elderly Turkish-born man suspected of fatally shooting a younger Turkish associate and slicing off the victim’s penis in what investigators called an “honor killing.”
Police in the town of Wimpassing in the province of Lower Austria made the arrest shortly after the Wednesday night slaying, and said the suspect — described only as a 76-year-old native Turk — did not resist.
Officials said witnesses claimed the man allegedly shot the victim, a 58-year-old Turkish-born man, in the street with a shotgun at point-blank range and then cut off his penis with a knife, leaving him to bleed to death.
Two teams of surgeons worked at the scene to save the man but were unable to revive him, authorities said.
Investigators believe the suspect apparently was jealous that the younger man had flirted with his wife, and had sought him out as “a question of honor,” said Franz Polzer, head of the region’s criminal investigations office.
Honor killings, driven by the view that a family’s honor is paramount, are an ancient tradition associated with Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as tribal areas in Pakistan and some Arab societies.
The suspect initially fled into a nearby house after the slaying, but witnesses alerted police to his location and he walked out and surrendered shortly thereafter, Polzer said.
Police said the man appeared to have purchased the shotgun earlier on Wednesday. They said he had disposed of the knife, but that officers recovered the weapon after searching the area.
It was the first known attack of its kind in Austria, which is home to about 200,000 Turks — Europe’s third-largest Turkish expatriate population after Germany and France.
But so-called honor killings have occurred elsewhere in Europe:
— In August, a federal court in Germany ordered a retrial for two brothers acquitted of fatally shooting their sister —an attack that prosecutors said was meant to punish the Turkish-German woman for her Western lifestyle.
— In Britain in July, the father and uncle of an Iraqi Kurd woman who was murdered for falling in love with the wrong man were sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killing.
— In 2006, a Danish court sentenced a Pakistani man to life imprisonment for ordering the slaying of his 19-year-old daughter, who was gunned down two days after her wedding because her family allegedly disapproved of her choice of husband.
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October 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pmOwwwww Crazy bastards .. ouch !
funny their obsession for sausages (
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October 11th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
October 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pmFrance : 380 000 turks, but lots of political refugiees from the former military dictature and those are moderated and (political) educated persons ; lots of Kurds from Turkey, kinda more vindicative, but swallowed in the muslim mass ; we don’t hear much from them ;
October 11th, 2007 at 1:37 pmthese problems of “honor” retaliation occured more in Germany where Turcs are the mainstream immigrants with yougoslaves
Honor killing? WTF is that? Seems to me that honor and murder when used together are mutually exclusive of one another. So an honor killing is an oxymoron. And what can one expect from mental midgets with a 7th Century brain anyways?
October 11th, 2007 at 3:32 pmthis article downplays the amount of honor killing that go on around the world, particularly in europe and america where many muslims have moved to. ayaan hirsi ali is living proof of how governments dont do enough to report the # of murders do to protecting Honor actually occur. she was successful in having dutch law require such statistics when she was a parliamentarian. in one month they recorded 11 such honior killings in 1 district alone.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:48 pm