Shania
born: 2007
Murder attempt: 28 May 2019
Residence: Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
Origin:Syria
Children: 4 (?, ?, 17, 15)
Perpetrator: Adham S. (41 years)

In 2017 Adham S., a Kurd from the city of Afrin in the north of Syria, fled via Turkey to the Netherlands. His wife Shania and four children came to Alphen aan den Rijn a year later for family reunification, where they lived in a flat.

Adham lived on social security benefit and sat at home all day. Since the family reunification, the couple would fight almost every day and Adham would have threatened his wife several times with a knife.

On 28 May 2019, Adham stabs his wife five times in her chest with a knife, hitting both lungs and a large vein. The daughter had been stabbed in her heart. In order to save her life she had to be operated on at the crime scene by a doctor flown in by trauma helicopter. The women were in intensive care for several weeks and survived.

Adham was arrested by the police, with blood on his hands, in the porch of the flat.

At the police station and in court, Adham explained that he had drunk three cans of beer and that he had no recollection of the attempted murders.

When a judge wanted to know why he had stabbed, Adham told him that his honour had been compromised. I was always humiliated and laughed at. They stood in front of me. "You're not a man! You're not my father! My daughter was in love with an Arab. I wasn't happy about that. Everything was destroyed by the Arabs."

The judge then asked: "Does that give you the right to do this?" To which the man replied: "I don't know."

'I never wanted this. They themselves are guilty of what happened, they led me to this desperate act,' said Adham S.

The court will rule in two weeks. We have changed the names of the victims.