Moroccan Woman in Spain Fights to Bury Mother Locally After Tragic Murder in Casablanca

On Monday, around eight o’clock in the evening, Saray learns the sad news. Her mother has been killed in a vacant lot in Retamar. "He had time to get rid of the body. I think he didn’t want to report it and that justice must be done because they took my mother from me, and in the most traumatic way possible. She was young, she was 38 years old and had her whole life ahead of her. I’m 20 years old, it’s not fair..." she bursts into tears to the IDEAL media. She denies that the victim and her murderer, already in prison, "met via Tinder, a dating app." "She supposedly knew him, but I don’t think he was a long-time friend, otherwise the whole family would have known him," she continues.

Currently, the case is under investigation. The 20-year-old woman insisted that she and her family would fight to have this case recognized as an act of "gender-based violence, because there was a relationship." She remembers the last conversation she had with her mother. "Around 1:54 a.m. (last Monday), I wrote to her. I had an intuition, but she didn’t answer me," Saray recounts. "I felt that something had happened, but I thought she might not have seen my message." Since the announcement of the sad news, her family and she are in shock. "The way things happened was very brutal," she laments.

While waiting for justice to be done, Saray faces uncertainty: where will her mother’s body be buried, according to the Muslim rite? The family will recover Meri’s body from the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Her wish is for Meri’s body to rest in Almería where she lived all her life, but she fears that the body will be repatriated to Casablanca, Morocco. "We want to bury her in Almería, so that my family and I can go see my mother. [...] I want my mother here, with mine and with those who loved her," the victim’s daughter pleaded.