Residents send an important signal and remember a 15-year-old who was killed on Wednesday with flowers and a torchlight procession in Husum. Several hundred citizens gathered for a torchlight procession in Husum on Sunday evening. The attendees want to send a message that weapons and violence have no place in the neighborhood after a 15-year-old was stabbed to death on Wednesday. The organizer of the event, Tanwir Ahmad, is overwhelmed by the large turnout, he told Ritzau.
Especially the composition of the turnout. It is not only parents and grandparents, there is also a large turnout from the youth. The torchlight procession is our reaction as Husum citizens. It is our human reaction, because we are affected. The procession began at the bus stop Åfløjen and ends at Husum Square with a poem. The poem puts words to the feeling of loss and what emotion it can leave behind, says Tanwir Ahmad.
It has been a very, very quiet demonstration, with not many speeches, says Tanwir Ahmad. Only the mother of the 15-year-old said a few words, while many brought flowers to remember the deceased. The 15-year-old boy was killed at the bus stop on Frederikssundsvej opposite Humlebjerg. He arrived there by bus, and when he got off, he was attacked and stabbed in the chest with a knife. The injured boy ran away from the scene and collapsed at Åfløjen, which is nearby. The police suspect a 14-year-old boy of wielding the knife. On Friday, a 15-year-old boy was also remanded in custody in the case. He is being held for aggravated assault.