Naceur Damergi

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Naceur Damergi
Execution by hanging
Other namesSlaughterer of Nabeul
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims14
Span of crimes
1987–1988
CountryTunisia
Date apprehended
27 November 1989

Naceur Damergi (

Arabic: سفاح نابل; 1944 – 17 November 1990), was a Tunisian serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered fourteen minors in Nabeul, Tunisia in the 1980s. He was the last person to be executed in Tunisia.[1]

Biography

Early life

The illegitimate son of a young man from the

French occupation of Tunisia
. After leaving prison, she married a farmer and registered her son in his name. Damergi did not meet his biological father for thirty years.

He was described as intelligent by the doctors and psychiatrists who treated him, also being fluent in French. During his childhood he studied at the Bourguiba Children's School and then interrupted his education to work in agriculture, in which business he thrived financially. He traveled to France in 1964 after he got engaged to his cousin; when he returned in 1968, he discovered that his fiancée had married another man.

Crimes

Damergi's first victim was a child named Muhammad Ali; on 15 June 1987, he offered to pay Ali to help him harvest almond fruits on his farm. As they were climbing the tree, Damergi expressed a desire to rape Ali, who refused and tried to escape. Damergi covered his mouth with one hand to prevent him from screaming and pressed his other hand on his neck until he died; believing Ali had fainted, Damergi put him to bed for six hours, eventually burying him on the farm when he realized he had died.

Not committing any further crimes until February 1988, Damergi subsequently honed his formula of luring children onto his farm to rape and murder them. By the time of his arrest, he had murdered fourteen victims ranging in age from 10 to 18 years. One notable victim was his ex-fiancée's 13-year-old son Ramzi, whom he mutilated with a sharp object before murdering him on 26 January 1988. This was the primary offence for which he was convicted.[2]

Arrest and execution

Before Damergi's apprehension, many suspects were arrested, including Naceur himself; he was released due to lack of evidence. He was arrested a second time on 27 November 1989. Lawyers in Tunisia refused to defend him, so the court assigned a lawyer to defend him.

After his request for

clemency was denied by president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali,[1] Damergi was executed by hanging at 3:15 a.m. on 17 November 1990 at Nador Prison, Tunis. Am Hassen, his executioner, remembered in a 2013 interview with Leaders magazine that Damergi took thirteen minutes to die, rather than the common four or five.[3]

Legacy

On 5 March 2013, after the

El Hiwar El Tounsi channel, aired two episodes about the case, featuring some of the victims’ families, forensic doctors, psychologists, lawyers for the perpetrator, and eyewitnesses. However, the perpetrator's lawyer stated in the program that his agent had been in a traffic accident that caused a concussion of 30%, and that he had severe mental disorders and was in a state of permanent isolation.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Cas de Naceur Damergi (True Crime Library) Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Lazreg, Adam (3 May 2022). "The Slaughterer of Nabeul: Nasser Damergi". Medium. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  3. ^ « Comment a été pendu le tueur en série de Nabeul », Leaders, 17 mai 2013
  4. YouTube

See also

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