Accused of murdering his wife Nawsheen - Safwaan Chady: "She was trying to separate me from my mother"
Accused of murdering his wife Nawsheen, Safwaan Chady stated, "She was trying to separate me from my mother." The brother of the young woman disputes this claim: "That is not true." Nawsheen Chady, 37, was killed with iron bars by her husband, Safwaan Chady, 38, in Circumstance, Saint-Pierre. After being interrogated multiple times by the Criminal Investigation Division of Moka over the weekend, he provided a different motive to the police to justify this irreversible act, claiming that his wife was trying to distance him from his mother. "My wife was trying to separate me from my mother," he told investigators.
This version is firmly contested by the victim's brother, who sees it as an attempt to minimize Safwaan's responsibility. "That is not true. That did not happen," he stated in a declaration after being contacted by Le Défi Quotidien on Sunday afternoon, July 13, 2025.
Since the tragic event on Thursday, July 10, 2025, CID investigators in Moka have been trying to establish the exact motive for this feminicide. Over the weekend, Safwaan Chady, a drug addict, changed his initial statement and claimed that tensions in their 14-year marriage stemmed from Nawsheen's behavior, which he alleged was an effort to create a rift between him and his mother.
He alleged that this family conflict had been mentally draining him for years: "My head was tired." He claimed that in recent days, disputes had become frequent in their marriage, which escalated into a violent confrontation on the day of the tragedy.
The vegetable vendor revealed that his wife had left that morning to visit her relatives' shop in Saint-Pierre to complain about Safwaan's violent behavior. Rogiffa Eckburally, 62, confirmed that her daughter had indeed come to her shop to report her husband's violent behavior towards her.
At that moment, the worst was already feared: "My daughter called me before that and said not to come to the shop. She told me to hide and see where I would go." Sensing danger, the sixty-year-old moved to her son's shop in the same village.
There, she saw her daughter for the last time. "Around 1:15 PM, she came there. She told me, 'Mom, you don't know what I'm going through.' Then Safwaan called her. I told my daughter not to go with him. She said, 'No mom, I have to go. What will he do? He will kill me. I have to stay.'" She added that Safwaan grabbed her daughter by the shoulder and took her home. "Not even 5 minutes later he killed her," she lamented.
Nawsheen's lifeless body was discovered around 1:30 PM in their home after her sister-in-law contacted the police. Safwaan was found in the backyard, apparently disoriented. The police immediately asked where his wife was, and he showed signs of panic. Under the insistence of the officers, he opened the door.
They found the young woman with her head slumped in a pool of blood. Investigators also discovered three blood-stained iron bars, seized as evidence. The SAMU doctor, who arrived shortly after, could only pronounce Nawsheen Chady dead.
When questioned by the police, he initially tried to claim he intervened in a dispute between his mother and wife. However, surveillance cameras installed in the family yard, from which the investigators obtained footage, contradicted his account.
The video showed that only he and Nawsheen were present at the scene during the attack. Safwaan Chady's parents also confirmed to investigators that they were attending a funeral at the time of the tragedy.
Surveillance recordings also captured the unusually violent attack. The alleged murderer used three iron bars stored in the house. "I struck her many times with iron, on her head and body until she died," he ultimately admitted.
The young woman, struck repeatedly, fell defenseless. Nawsheen Chady bled to death. This young mother leaves behind an 11-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son. Meanwhile, Safwaan Chady appeared before the Moka court on Friday, July 11, 2025, where he was provisionally charged with murder. He will soon participate in a reenactment.
The close relatives who gave her the last bath said: "Fragile, small, delicate... Bruises, still more bruises." It was those who loved her most—her mother, aunts, and relatives—who had the heavy task of giving her the last purifying bath (Ghusl) before her funeral. A heartbreaking moment of intimacy that one of them recounted on Facebook: "They had to prepare her broken and lifeless body for burial. The women who raised her with tenderness and pride had to wash away the blood and bruises left by the man who called himself her husband. We raised her with love and delivered her to a monster. She was not protected. She was exposed." The lifeless body of Nawsheen bore the marks of unbearable violence, as described by another distraught relative: "We could barely wash her body properly. She was the size of a child on that table at the Al Ihsaan Islamic & Funeral Center. Fragile, small, delicate... Bruises, still more bruises. Fractured skull, dislocated jaw, broken wrist. He broke her."
