Entrevista ao carrasco do reino.

Recentemente chegou me este artigo, que considero no mínimo bizarro, trata-se de uma entrevista a um cidadão Saudita perfeitamente normal com mulher e filhos, apenas com um pequeno “se não”, a sua profissão. Muhammad Saad Al-Beshi, é um “carrasco” do Reino Saudita, a sua profissão é cortar as cabeças e mutilar órgãos aos criminosos, ou todos aqueles que infrinjam as leis legais ou religiosas no reino.

Deixo-vos algumas aqui algumas frases da entrevista:

- “It doesn’t matter to me: Two, four, 10 — As long as I’m doing God’s will, it doesn’t matter how many people I execute,”

- “Me? I sleep very well,” he adds.

- “No one is afraid of me. I have a lot of relatives, and many friends at the mosque, and I live a normal life like everyone else. There are no drawbacks for my social life.”

- However, he does reveal that a sword will cost something in the region of SR20,000. “It’s a gift from the government. I look after it and sharpen it once in a while, and I make sure to clean it of bloodstains.

- “It’s very sharp. People are amazed how fast it can separate the head from the body.”

- “As an experienced executioner, 42-year-old Al-Beshi is entrusted with the task of training the young. “I successfully trained my son Musaed, 22, as an executioner and he was approved and chosen,” he says proudly. Training focuses on the way to hold the sword and where to hit, and is mostly through observing the executioner at work.”

- An executioner’s life, of course, is not all killing. Sometimes it can be amputation of hands and legs. “I use a special sharp knife, not a sword,” he explains. “When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where it is to be taken off, so I follow that.”

- “Al-Beshi describes himself as a family man. Married before he became an executioner, his wife did not object to his chosen profession.”

- “I deal with my family with kindness and love. They aren’t afraid when I come back from an execution. Sometimes they help me clean my sword.”

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