The woman said that she had received information through her acquaintances that her husband had died in a devastating explosion in Mogadishu in October 2017. According to the court, there was no other evidence of her husband’s death than the woman’s own story.
Legal has rejected a Somali woman’s application to have her husband declared dead. According to the woman, the man would have died in a big explosion in Somalia in 2017.
The woman arrived in Finland in 2015 as an asylum seeker. She said that she had been forced into marriage in Somalia. Based on that, he was accepted into the system to help victims of human trafficking, and in July 2020 he was granted asylum.
According to the woman, she had not been in contact with her husband at all after he left for Finland. However, she said that she had received information through her acquaintances that her husband had died in a devastating explosion in Mogadishu in October 2017.
Almost 300 people died in the explosion at the Soobe intersection.
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A woman according to the spouse had been driving the van when the explosion occurred. The body has not been fully recovered because it was dismembered.
According to the woman, she is unable to get more detailed information about her husband’s death because the relatives have cut off all contact with her. The information is thus based on the oral accounts of distant relatives and a former neighbor.
In April 2021, the Kanta-Häme district court rejected the woman’s application to declare the man dead, because there was no other evidence of the death of the spouse than the woman’s own account.
The court pointed out that no explanation has been presented in the case that would reveal a reliable course of events.
“Taking into account the quality of the report presented in the case, it cannot be considered very likely that the applicant’s disappearance is due to his death,” the district court concluded.
Turku the Court of Appeal did not grant the woman permission for further proceedings, so the decision remained in force.
Permission for further proceedings is granted, for example, if there is reason to doubt the correctness of the final result of the district court. The permit can also be granted for other compelling reasons.
A person can be declared dead if he has been in an accident that caused immediate danger to his life and there is no reason to assume that he was saved. The waiting period is one year if it is highly probable that the person has died.
Disappearance must clearly indicate that the person’s disappearance is precisely due to his death.
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