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He killed his wife in Paris and ten years later fell when he was going to quarantine in Formosa

2020-11-22T23:03:11.752Z


Tunisian Wael Mannai escaped from France after stabbing his young wife, Eslam Kerkenni, and being sentenced to 30 years in prison.


11/22/2020 12:01 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Police

Updated 11/22/2020 12:01

He had met her while on vacation, back in 2009, in Tunisia.

A relationship that was quickly consolidated but at the same time showed signs of violence from him.

And she, just as she had fallen in love, needed more than ever to escape.

A year later, with the help of her family, the young 20-year-old woman had managed to return to Paris, where she lived, to try to escape completely from the gender violence she suffered.

On the night of June 10, 2010, armed with a combat knife, dyed blonde so as not to be recognized,

Wael Mannai

traveled to France to kill

Eslam Kerkenni.

He waited for her at the door of his house and when he saw her arrive he did not hesitate for a second: he attacked her with

17 stab wounds

and even seriously injured a friend who was accompanying the young woman.


The threats and promises to assassinate her had come true.

Investigators did not take long to confirm who had killed the woman, but the femicide had already started his escape plan.

He got on a train bound for Marseille and then a ferry, to return to Tunis.

"The family conducted their investigation, hired a private investigator

and lawyers to enforce the arrest warrant, but to no avail. Tunisia explained that they never received the file," Me Aurélien Aucher, the lawyer, told me a couple of years ago. Parisian from the Kerkenni family, to the newspaper Le Parisien.

In February 2017, the French justice decided to hold a trial in his absence and sentenced the murderer to 30 years in prison.

A light of hope was activated when the femicide was arrested far away from his country.

On February 20, 2017 in São Paulo, Mannai was arrested after attempting to burn a woman alive with a Molotov cocktail.

There it was learned that, among so many irregularities, the international arrest warrant had not been activated.

The procedures were delayed and Mannai managed to free himself to follow his escape plan.

Eslam's family felt, right there, that the extradition and the execution of the sentence would come to nothing.

Hossni Kerkenni, Eslam's older sister, reported in the French media that she was "a super sociable young woman who devoured life."

Of course, meeting Wael Mannai, during a family vacation in Tunisia, changed everything.

Eslam decided to stay and live with that businessman who seemed charming, but the passion would not last long.

Wael Mannai was a fugitive for a decade, although he had been arrested in Brazil but managed not to be extradited to France.

Everything quickly got worse.

When she called her relatives, Eslam said she was kidnapped, beaten and drugged with sleeping pills to prevent her from leaving.

"In a few months, my sister was no longer herself ..." Hossni says. The family managed to get the woman out of Túñez and take her back to France.

"You'll see what I'm going to do to your sister," Wael Mannai said to Hossni one day.

With Eslam's father it was even harder:

"You will see your daughter again, but she will return in a coffin."

And he fulfilled.


Convicted and already with an international arrest warrant, incredibly the Tunisian femicide appeared in Formosa, thousands and thousands of kilometers from his country and from the Justice that was looking for him.

The defendant, who

posed as a Brazilian

, had entered that province through a clandestine passage via Paraguay, after which a neighbor from the capital Eva Perón neighborhood called 911.


At that time, the situation was that of an alleged Brazilian who had entered Argentine territory illegally.

He was detained and was forced to comply with the 14-day quarantine later in the Cadet School, coincidentally.

For the crime of Eslam, her former partner was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

"It was established that it was a man who had entered the province through non-authorized crossings (Alberdi-Paraguay) by river, with the intention of moving by land to the province of Santa Fe, being at that time delayed by the troops", the Formosa police specified.

Once at the Accommodation Center of the School for NCOs and Police Agents and after an investigation, the security force clarified that the man "had given a false information regarding his identity as well as his nationality, resulting in reality that he had another name, that he was from Tunisia and had an international arrest warrant, for an act of murder, according to the Interpol News Network, which was issued by the Court of Grande Instance Curt Paris ".

A special section of the Formosan Police entered the Accommodation Center where the man was located and proceeded to arrest him, and then hand him over to members of the Federal Police Formosa Delegation, who transferred the detainee in order to proceed with his Extradition.

A decade later and several thousand kilometers away from where he should be.

Source: clarin

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