cinema trust Tina Jalali wrote a note in Etemad newspaper titled “The heavy impact of the murder of Mehrjooi and his wife on the society”:
During the last one year, every time I read news and articles about Dariush Mehrjooi, it is impossible not to remember that horrible night when they announced that he and his wife were killed. I had seen it more than fifty times and I wanted to see what happened on the night of the murder?
This point bothered me more, during the last one year I have thought to myself many times what kind of deep grudge caused such a cruel and callous revenge? How cruel and cruel does one have to be to pull a knife on an 80-year-old man and kill him?
I saw the picture of the killers more than ten times and I thought to myself what terrible moments passed between these people and Mehrjooi and his wife that night?
Why didn’t Vahidah take the case seriously the first time the killers attacked her, and didn’t she lock the door three times the following nights? How easy were the killers to enter the privacy of two resting people and kill them with knives? How did they know that a third party or a special person was not at home?
Even though we live in an apartment, since the night of Mehrjoui’s murder, it is impossible not to check the lock on the entrance door and terrace three or four times at night.
Just a few nights ago, when we were at our relative’s house at night, I mistook the sound of cats fighting at bedtime and thought that the children on the lower floor of the villa who were sleeping were attacked. After a year, I still haven’t been able to erase the checkered pictures of Mehrjoui’s killers from my mind. When I come across such people in the streets and alleys, I carefully pass by them.
Some time ago, I was at a bakery, a worker from these children came to buy bread, I stared at his oppressed hands and eyes for a few minutes and I said to myself how people change in circumstances and turn into monsters. I may have exaggerated a little in this article, but I know that I am telling the truth.
Apart from having a negative effect on me nervously for a long time, the affair of Mehrjoui turned me into a very timid person. I used to be a person who used to walk through the alleys and streets until late at night and was not afraid, but now I am bothered by the fear and anxiety of the darkness of the night. I keep looking behind me so that no one attacks me.
In the first days of the incident, I was talking to the people of the city in buses and taxis about the murder, everyone had their own opinions, but it was interesting that everyone was surprised by the occurrence of such a heinous incident and raised the point of what kind of hatred caused such a thing. Has there been a cruel murder?
Now, after a year, I am waiting to read in the news that the murderer or murderers of Mehrjooi and his wife will be punished. Like many citizens, the murder of Mehrjooi and his wife has had an adverse effect on me psychologically, and it is unlikely that the adverse effect of these effects will be erased from my memory anytime soon.