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Date: Fri Aug 26 2011 - 12:54:58 EDT
Switzerland: The mystery of 5 Eritrean women
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News of 26/08/2011
over the past four months five young Eritrean women disappeared into thin
air. The last week at the beginning
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Paul D'Angelo
LUCERNE - Young women and nationalities of Eritrea . In four months in
Switzerland, five are missing. The final earlier in the week. Only one case?
Maybe, but there is no other ethnic group in Switzerland, which recorded a
rate as high as people disappeared into thin air. The daily Tages Anzeiger
in recent days has been involved in this story.
In early May was the first complaint of disappearance. It's called Milete,
28 years old and lives in Canton Lucerne. A week later comes the Lucerne
cantonal police reporting another loss, Yordanos, 24 year old Eritrean
nationality. Switch to another month and a new press: Feven disappeared, 28
years, Eritrea town, always from Lucerne. On August 11, Lydia went to Basel,
where she lives, playing basketball and that day has not returned home.
She's thirteen. And since the beginning of the week the police is looking
for Yohana Lucerne, twelve years. What happened? Where is it going to end? A
mystery. The suspect may have been victims of human traffickers hovers, but
Simon Kopp, Lucerne Cantonal police spokesman says there are signs that may
suggest this kind of crime.
On case of Lydia, the girl who lives with his parents for eight months in
Basel, and Yohana, the 12 year old disappeared from the Canton of Lucerne,
police favors the hypothesis of a family dispute. In fact, as regards the
case of Lydia, it was learned that the teen is left home with a few hundred
francs, no more to return. The police spokesman Klaus Mannhart Basel
considered it possible that the girl has fled out of love.
The fate, however, the three adult women, all over 20, are still groping in
the dark. One of them is married and her husband has absolutely no idea
where he might have driven his wife. The police of the canton of Lucerne is
following all the tracks and are looking to collaborate with experts in the
culture of Eritrea. In fact, as stated by the spokesman for the Tages
Anzeiger Kopp, "to solve this type of case is a must know their culture."
Toni Locher is a former Italian colony that knows it well. The
sixty-gynecologist, is chairman of the Committee of Wettingen Swiss support
to Eritrea. In Eritrea, there has been more than 50 times. The African
country since 1991, gained independence from Ethiopia. A Member of the
troubled history and ongoing war with neighboring Ethiopia. Since 1998,
Asmara has issued compulsory military service permanent and that means that
everyone can be called up at any time. An obligation, that's what is pushing
many young people to leave the country and seek asylum in European
countries, including Switzerland.
Locher describes the village overlooking the Indian Ocean still patriarchal
and closed his people, his women very diffident and modest. Eritreans do not
speak very little and open the next. "No wonder - Locher said - if the
police can collect very little information from relatives of missing
persons."
Locher explains that there are many Eritrean women dissatisfied with their
life in Europe. "They are often traumatized psychologically." Women who
arrived in Europe with their husband and children, who come from stories of
violence against them, to infibulation, of war. And when marriage becomes a
living hell these women try to escape and seek help in their families of
origin: "The family circle is of Eritrean women to a much greater role than
the husband," said Locher. Women who, thanks to the kinship network in
Europe, unable to find shelter with relatives. Locher also believes that the
reasons for missing are to be found only in the need for an escape.
Until now, no trace of them: "We have nothing - we were told today by the
press office of the police Lucerne - which might suggest a link between the
different cases of Eritrean women have disappeared in the canton of Lucerne.
We are beating all the tracks, we are investigating to see what could be the
reasons for their disappearance, we are working with other police forces in
cantons where there are disappearances of women from Eritrea, we are
contacting the Embassy of Eritrea to try to understand if you can collect
information through relatives who live there. "
** Software translation from Italian
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