On January 3, 2007, Francesco, an Italian, lies in the stairwell waiting for his divorced wife. He knocks her down in front of the basement door and shoots her 5 times. The victim survives badly wounded.
read Anna's storyA teenage girl falls in love with Frixos, a Greek who is eight years older. In June 2005, she is then 17 years old she breaks off the relationship with him.They say he used drugs and is a criminal (and is known to the police).
read Frixos' storyGönül and Ahmed married in 1989 in Turkey and moved to Germany in 1990. They have 2 children. Possibly many years later, Gönül falls in love with another man. On January 13, 2007, Ahmed goes to the shared bedroom to sleep with his wife.
read Gönül's storyMarion and Menderes have lived together for 18 years. They have three children. There are quarrels, unemployment, some divorces, money problems. They both drink alcohol and spend a lot of time playing computer games.
read Marion's storyWalentyna is a teacher from Ukraine, has a 4-year-old daughter with her husband Ahmed and divorced him in 2013. He does not want to accept this and starts stalking her. Later she marries Greek cook Konstantinos (48 years old).
read Walentyna's storyDerya was born in 1988 in Westervoort, the Netherlands. When she reaches puberty, her father forbids her to participate in swimming lessons, go to birthday parties (where boys are also invited) or enroll in dance classes at school.
read Derya's storyRukiye was married in 1995 in Kayseri, Turkey. Her groom lives in the Netherlands. On a vacation at home, his family chooses the 16-year-old as his marriage partner. Although they are cousins, they do not know each other.
read Rukiye's storyÖmer is doing an internship as an auto mechanic and is in love with the vocational student Rabiya (17 years old). She meets her ex-boyfriend Hakan, whom she knows from school, early in the morning on March 11, 2007 - supposedly for a talk.
read Ömer's storyIn March 2007, Yakub S., a 45-year-old Turk, shoots his 41-year-old partner in Solingen. They do not live together because he is married to another woman who is from his Turkish home village. It is possible that he had married his wife through an arranged marriage, and that he later took the other woman as his second wife.
read Pembe's storyIn 2000 Suzana is 18 years old and married to a Serb living in Germany. In 2002 he takes her to Elsenfeld, Franconia, and starts abusing her. She has to live in a flat with his mother.
read Suzana's storyIn 1997, Fethiye and Hamsa met. The following year, a son was born. Fethiye already has two daughters, one of whom is disabled. During their relationship, Fethiye filed charges against her partner for domestic violence three times.
read Fethiye's storyAt about 1992 Margarete and Ilya got married. He has no profession, she is trained as a saleswoman in retail, but later takes care of the 5 children they have together. Sometimes the family lives in Belgium.
read Margarete's storyNedjat's sister Jasmin (then 30 or 34 years old) works as a waitress in a restaurant and has an affair with the innkeeper Georgius. His ancestry is sometimes called Greek, sometimes Georgian, sometimes Russian-Greek.
read Georgius' storySandra is not married off, nor is she from a Muslim country. She is from Munich and is (as far as one can judge from the outside) in very normal, good circumstances. When she was 17, on vacation in Tunisia, she fell in love with an entertainer and a hairdresser.
read Sandra's storySahar's parents sold their 18-year-old daughter in 2000 from Iraq to Adnan, a cab driver from Augsburg. The two are married by an imam from Munich. This is the beginning of her ordeal. Sahar is beaten and held like a prisoner.
read Sahar's storyAynur has lived in Cologne since childhood. At the age of 19 she is forcibly married off to a Turkish cousin. The couple lives in Cologne, first with her parents, later in their own flat. She works as a pharmacy assistant, he at an engine manufacturer.
read Aynur's storyFaruk was born in Turkey, came to Germany as a schoolboy and later worked as a street sweeper in Munich. In 1984, his family married him to 16-year-old Imre. The two have lived together for over twenty years and have 4 or 5 children.
read Imre's storyHonor crimes against men are rare. But the murder of 19-year-old Yvan is a particularly savage example. The perpetrator is the German Turk Deniz Eroglu. His then-girlfriend, Sessen, is a 16-year-old girl from Eritrea.
read Yvan's storyIn early 2007, Zohair took a course in German with Asta Gietenbruch, who is from Lithuania. She is an interpreter and married to a German named Torsten. Asta and Zohair begin an affair.
read Asta's storyMehmet is a kebab vendor, married and has 4 children. He begins an affair with the singer Katharina. She sings in the band Menichal Servants. Because he does not want a divorce, Katharina separates from him in the winter of 2006/2007.
read Katharina's storyJasmin and Ramazan married in 2000. They live in the district of Rotthausen in Gelsenkirchen. There are several police interventions because of domestic violence. When they separate, Ramazan moves to Bottrop.
read Jasmin's storyAylin is not dead. But her injuries are so severe that the prosecutor said during the trial that such injuries usually occur only in corpses. In March 1991, Aylin went to a trade school in Turkey.
read Aylin's storyElif has been married to her husband for ten (or 13) years. Later, neighbors and the brother of the murdered woman testified that they often quarreled. This was also the case on December 12, 2007: The unemployed husband goes to the bathroom, loads his gun there and shoots his wife in the children's room in front of his nine-year-old daughter.
read Elif's storyIn 1999, Kalliopi (called Poppi) and Efstratios marry in Greece, move to Stuttgart and have two children. In 2003, Efstratios is sent to prison for two years for drug offenses. Kalliopi divorces him and receives custody of the two children.
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Source: 03-04-2025 stopfemicideiran.org: StopFemicideIran (SFI) publishes report on femicides in Iran in 2024
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
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