Published 21 May 2024 at 16.18
Domestic. The questions about Marua Ajouz's disappearance and death do not get a final answer either in the Court of Appeal. The charges against her ex-boyfriend are dismissed again.
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The then 18-year-old Marua Ajouz in Malmö disappeared around Christmas 2002. The following year, her severed body was found head in by mushroom pickers in Bokskogen.
Suspicions were directed at her criminally charged boyfriend, whom she had visited shortly before the disappearance. He was detained for some time but was never charged with a crime.
Since additional body parts had been found outside Malmö in 2017 and new witnesses came forward, the preliminary investigation was resumed. It could then be established that the remains had traces of a gunshot wound.
The boyfriend, who is now 43 years old and has not been prosecuted for a crime for many years, was detained again and charged with murder. He denied having anything to do with the matter. In the case, many witnesses were heard with connections to the environments at Värnhem in which Marua Ajouz and the 43-year-old grew up, but in September 2023 the Malmö district court rejected the prosecution and set him free.
The prosecutor appealed the verdict and invoked new evidence. Today, however, the Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the district court's acquittal.
– There are circumstances that suggest that Marua died in connection with visiting her boyfriend. But exactly what happened has not been clarified. The investigation is simply not strong enough to be able to convict someone of murder, says Court of Appeal counsel Karin Mårtensson.