She was Fortune Kolagbé, just 22 years old — a Togolese student filled with dreams, determination, and hope for a brighter future 🌍✨. Like so many young people abroad, she balanced long hours of work with demanding studies, believing that perseverance would one day open doors.

On the evening of December 4, 2022, Fortune finished her shift at Burger King in Plan-de-Campagne and waited at a bus stop, eager to return home and revise for an upcoming exam 📚🚌. It was an ordinary moment — one that should never have become her last.

Without warning, a 26-year-old man, intoxicated and carrying a large knife, rushed toward her. There was no argument. No provocation. No reason.
In less than a minute, he stabbed Fortune more than 14 times, inflicting devastating wounds to her heart, lungs, throat, and face 💔🔪.

She collapsed on the sidewalk, bleeding to death, as passersby watched in horror. Emergency services arrived swiftly, but the injuries were too severe. Fortune Kolagbé died there, alone on the pavement — her dreams extinguished in a senseless act of violence 😢🕯️.

Today, three years later, her alleged killer is still waiting to be judged. For Fortune’s family, friends, and the Togolese community in Togo, time has not healed the wound. Each passing day without justice deepens the pain and raises the same haunting question: how long must a family wait for accountability?

This is not just a crime story.
It is the story of a young woman who wanted to learn, to work, to live — and of a justice system whose silence continues to echo as loudly as the violence that took her life 🕊️⚖️. Fortune deserved protection. She deserved justice. And she must not be forgotten. 🖤