Her voice stops. Not for the first time during the conversation, the tears are looking for a way down through the cheeks. Talking about her deceased son is a struggle for Mirna a year and a half after the fatal accident, just like her entire life.
And that while existence before October 2023 already brought enough challenges. Mirna flee from Syria in 2020. Away from the violence, on to a safe future for her, her husband and the two children Ibrahim and Joseph.
Crossing in a boat
Via Turkey and Greece she makes the dangerous crossing to the Netherlands without her loved ones in a boat, where she ends up after a 7 -month trip. Then followed by men and children. Several AZCs later Mirna’s family is assigned a home: in Oosterblokker. After the divorce of her husband, she continues to live here alone with her two sons.
The gaze is aimed at what is to come, until October 2, 2023. Her eldest son Ibrahim – then 12 years old – calls her from the football field of Woudia, where he plays. Whether he can continue to play football with his friends after training. “I said he had to come home, because it was already getting dark.”
Deposit with agents
But Ibrahim did not come home. Mirna is going to look for him and sees the Dr. Wijtemalaan in Westwoud is closed. At the deposition, she tells agents that she is looking for her child. “They asked how old he was and how he looked. Then I got his shoe in my hand. Whether it could be from him.”
Ibrahim appears to have been hit by a then 21-year-old resident of the same village. She would have been under the influence of cannabis. The heart of Ibrahim has stopped, but after resuscitation he is transported to the hospital. Five days later He dies In the AMC in Amsterdam to his deviations. Mirna: “I strongly believed those days that Jesus would save my child, but that didn’t happen.”