Death penalty for Tunisian man who ended his wife’s life with a machete
A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death by hanging in absentia after he was convicted of killing his wife with a machete in one of the northern suburbs of the capital, Tunis.
The case files reviewed by the “Criminal Division of the Court of First Instance” in Tunis revealed that a fight broke out months ago, late at night, between a married couple living in one of the northern suburbs of the capital. As the argument escalated, the husband grabbed a machete and struck his wife in various parts of her body, resulting in her death.
According to the indictment, the husband fled to an unknown destination and was placed on the wanted list. He remains at large.
A study released by the “Tunisian Women‘s Union” showed that Tunisia had recorded 23 cases of women being killed since the beginning of the current year until last August.
The study also revealed that last year witnessed 15 cases of women being killed.
It pointed out that the governorate of Sfax in the central east of the country witnessed four crimes, followed by Ariana and the capital Tunis with three cases each. The governorates of Nabeul and Sousse had two cases each, while the remaining cases were distributed across the rest of the governorates at an average rate of one case per governorate.
The study noted that 38% of the murder cases were committed by stabbing with a knife, accounting for nine crimes, and 29% involved sharp objects (7 cases), 13% were strangulation, 8% were by slashing, 4% were by running over with a car, and the same percentage was by throwing victims down a well.
