Policemen shot Bonn woman in Tunisia three years ago Post lost evidence in Ahlem Dalhoumi case
Bonn · German authorities lost evidence material in the case of the Bonn woman Ahlem Dalhoumi who was shot by police in the Tunisian town of Kasserine in 2014.
Bullet splinters, which were surgically removed from the cousin of the victim, Yasmin, who was also shot, were sent by post and did not arrive in the Federal Office of Justice in Bonn. The Tunisian authorities had contacted the Office of the District Attorney in Bonn in March with an official letters rogatory, asking for the bullet splinters to be send to them. A severe blow for Ahlem Dalhoumi’s family, who lives in Bonn.
„Our belief in the German judiciary has been shaken“, said the aunt, Fadhila Dalhoumi. Ahlem and Ons Dalhoumi died on August 23 through bullet wounds inflicted by police staff in the Tunisian town of Kasserine. They were on the way home after a wedding. Sondes, Ahlem’s sister, was driving. The 21-year-old Ahlem was on the passenger seat. The cousins Ons from Tunisia and Yasmin, who grew up in Beuel, like Ahlem, were in the back of the car.
The police mistook the vehicle occupants as terrorists, as they had later stated. Sondes accelerated to flee. The men aimed at the car from behind as it sped away. Bullets hit Ahlem, Ons and Yasmin. Ahlem died immediately. Ons died the same night from a severe head injury. Yasmin survived badly injured, a bullet had gone into her shoulder. The projectile was surgically removed in Bonn a short time later. According to the investigators in this case, the Tunisian authorities now want to examine the evidence. (Original text: Nicolas Ottersbach Translation: Mareike Graepel)
