In 2015, Bobel Barqasho was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he threw his own wife out of a balcony in Södertälje in Sweden, while the couple’s two-year-old son was asleep.
The woman, who in Swedish newspapers is referred to as Sofia, miraculously survived the 13 meter high fall from the sixth floor, despite life-threatening injuries.
– I have memories of being carried. He holds me by the shoulder and shouts my name. And then it turns black, she said in an interview with Swedes Expressen i 2017.
SURVIVED: Sofia and her son live today under a hidden identity. Photo: Police
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In a wheelchair
She was 26 years old when her husband in 2013 tried to take her life. The attempted murder resulted in Sofia sitting in a wheelchair today.
She also became paralyzed in one arm and is visually impaired.
In the Swedish media, Barqashio is referred to as “The Balcony Man”. He managed to escape to Turkey and obtained Turkish citizenship, writes Expressen.
The two countries have no extradition agreement.
13 METERS DOWN: Sofia was thrown out from the 6th floor. She survived against all odds. Photo: Police
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Must zone in Turkey
In 2021, the sentence was transferred to Turkey, and last week he was arrested – after being on the run for seven years.
According to the Turkish newspaper News Barqasho, who was wanted internationally, lived under a false identity.
“The person, who has received a 14-year prison sentence, traveled through many countries with false identities. He was taken by a police team in the Kuşadası district of Aydın, where he arrived recently “, writes the newspaper.
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