When the trial against Yusuf C. begins in August 2010 before the district court of Wuppertal, witnesses describe the father of the family as often aggressive. His wife therefore divorced him in October 2009.
read Selma's storyIn August 2008, cashier Nalan moves out of the shared apartment with their four children. Murat does not accept the divorce and begins to threaten his wife. There is an attempted murder. The office worker is remanded in custody as a result.
read Nalan's storyThe perpetrator is called Awad K. at one point, at ZDF Kerim T. from Gerlingen. He beat up his girlfriend with a wooden bat in October 2008 and therefore has a criminal record. To others he threatens to kill her if she breaks up with him.
read Marika's storyFarid studied law in Afghanistan and is fluent in German. He is said to be well integrated. Other sources describe him as short-tempered and "fundamentalist." There is much arguing in his marriage.
read Khatera's storyIn the spring of 2008, Rosa, a saleswoman, and Gökhan, an unemployed man, meet. Because of his violence, she divorces after a year and gets a new boyfriend. Gökhan does not want to accept this.
read Rosa's storyAmal's murder is one of the few honor killings in this archive where the perpetrator is a woman. However, there are other cases where female family members are involved in the murder plot. Amal and Stera are friends. Amal is a Kurdish woman from Lebanon with a German passport.
read Amal's storyIn December 2009, Avdurahman, a carpenter, buys a machine gun in the former Yugoslavia. The accompanying story probably goes as follows: Avdurahman's younger brother is murdered in Serbia. The killer goes free.
read Nusreta's storyDöndü breaks off her internship as a saleswoman, goes to Turkey in December 2009 and gets married. Bride and groom were born in Germany but hold Turkish passports. A few months later, her husband kills her: On March 15, 2010, the Turk strangles his wife at about 3 a.m. in their shared apartment in Stolberg.
read Döndü's storyViktor and Anna leave their Romanian homeland in 1996 and 1998 as late resettlers and come to Gelnhausen in Hesse. They marry in 1999. He works for a car supplier, she as a waitress. After ten years, the two divorce.
read Anna's storyThe Zakeri family emigrated to Germany from Afghanistan in the 1980s and lived in Darmstadt. They have 3 children and are well integrated. The older sisters are named Nadia and Tania. Both are studying to become pharmaceutical commercial assistants.
read Tania's storyRamaszan comes to Germany in 1972 and to Frankfurt in 1984. He works as a baggage handler. In 2002 he married Fatma, who is eight years younger. It is his second marriage; his first wife had committed suicide.
read Fatma's storyTanja is a translator and lives with her husband Moncef, the two children they have together and her father, who is in need of care, in a house owned by Tanja's family. Moncef is a computer scientist, but does not work and speaks broken German.
read Tanja's storyAyse has a German passport and studies biology. On April 13, she wants to buy a ticket in the Frankfurt subway. From behind, her ex-boyfriend attacks her with a knife and stabs her. Passersby intervene, call the ambulance and apprehend the perpetrator.
read Ayse's storyYou can think of this case as an honor killing - or not. Here's the story: 18-year-old vocational education student Saskia from Eckernförde is 10 weeks pregnant with her boyfriend Erwino-Claudio from Rendsburg.
read Saskia's storyFunda is 14 years old and married to Mehmet, who is six years older. At 15, she becomes a mother for the first time. Her sister will later say that the marriage was "the hell on earth ".
read Funda's storyBarbara wants to divorce her husband. His origin is given as North Africa, presumably he comes from Tunisia or Morocco. He does not want to accept the divorce and chases her with a knife into their shared flat on 7 May 2010.
read Barbara's storyOn May 9, 2010, Onur is waiting for his sister's ex-boyfriend at a crosswalk in Bonn. He has four companions with him. First he beats up Ahmet, then rams a knife into his upper body. The victim is taken to the hospital seriously injured.
read Ahmet's storyFiliz and Ayse come from a Turkish-Kurdish family. Their father, now deceased, had 2 wives (at the same time) and 15 children. When Ayse was 3 years old, she came to Germany and had a few temporary jobs after she finished high school.
read Ali's storyIn the early morning of June 8, 2010, Sabine is hit by a car belonging to her divorced husband outside her front door. She falls to the ground with her bicycle. He shoots several times with a gun, seriously injuring her.
read Sabine's storyIn 1992, Isa and Margarethe come to Germany from Kosovo. The Serb finds work in a tree nursery, the Kosovo Albanian in a hotel. Because Isa seriously injures his son's ex-girlfriend with an iron bar, he is sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
read Margarethe's storyOn the evening of June 24, 2010, a few friends came home from a party. Mathias, an Aramean from Turkey, approaches Julia (21 years old). Her boyfriend Pascal (22 years old) intervenes. Mathias stabs him with six stitches.
read Pascal's storyThe antecedents of this murder are rather unclear: Sara was born in Iraq and married in 2002 according to Islamic law. Her husband is also from Iraq, but has British citizenship. There is a young daughter from the "marriage."
read Sara's storyFaricin/Fahrettin is a mechanic, does not work and has a criminal record for some violent crimes. Neighbors describe his marriage to Gülsen as not happy. Presumably, she wants to divorce her husband.
read Gülsen's storyMustafa is a rejected asylum seeker. He has been with Jessica, a Cameroonian woman, since 2009. He hides in her apartment and basement to avoid deportation to Switzerland. On July 25, 2010, he stabbed Jessica 4 times in the neck.
read Jessica's storyOzan (or Adnan) works as a car salesman, his deaf wife takes care of their three common children. They all have German nationality. When the daughters were in kindergarten on September 10, 2010, Ozan beat his wife to the ground with a chair.
read Ivona's storyOn the eve of the crime, there is a phone conversation between Arife's husband and a relative in Turkey. He ends it with "I will do what needs to be done." At 5:30 the next morning, he stabs his wife. She dies in the apartment.
read Arife's storyYüksel has been stalking his ex-girlfriend Gülay for some time. He does not want to accept their divorce. On September 29, 2010, he shows up at the hotel where she works. Gülay calls a cousin to help mediate.
read Gülay's storyFor a while, Gülay and Resul live together. Then he has to start a prison sentence. When he gets out of prison, Gülay has emancipated herself and no longer wants to be with him. Resul does not want to accept that at all.
Serap is 35 years old and pregnant by a Kurd. Her Turkish brother Ibrahim sees this as a violation of family honor. In October 2010, he visits his sister in her apartment. He threatens, "I have come to kill you."
read Serap's storyOne of the rare honor killings of a man, respectively, it remains an assassination attempt. Brothers Abdullah and Mohamad beat up their 16-year-old sister Sara because they do not accept her relationship with a man four years older.
read Ghassan's storyOn November 11, 2010, neighbors hear screams coming from Iris' apartment in the morning and alert the police. When the officers arrive, Ahmed meets them with blood on his hands and shoes. In the apartment lies the body of his ex-wife.
read Iris' storyOn November 15, 2010, Bosnian Bajro shot his wife in front of his 16-year-old daughter. He then went on a rampage in the house, but later surrendered to the police. The perpetrator's occupation is given as self-employed freight forwarder, as religion Muslim.
read Indira's storyOn November 27, 2010, Seyfi, a trained industrial mechanic, runs into the street in front of his house and screams that he has killed his wife. Neighbors call the police. The perpetrator gets himself arrested.
read Meral's storyAli is a miner, but makes ends meet with undeclared work. While delivering pizzas in Oberhausen, he meets Fadia, an Arab woman. They have an on-and-off relationship. On November 30, 2010, Ali kills his girlfriend in her apartment with 35 knife stabs, nearly chopping off her head.
read Fadia's storyAt about the year 2000, Filiz and Ramazan got married. They have three children. The marriage is violent, there is abuse and death threats, even in front of the children. Filiz files charges against her husband several times, but withdraws the charges, presumably due to family pressure.
read Filiz' storyZada's family is from Lebanon, her parents have 8 children. Her father marries her off. Zada has at least one son. Zada divorces her husband and goes into hiding for a year and a half. After that, her father forgives her - supposedly.
read Zada's storyJanine lives with her 12-year-old daughter in Bad Homburg and works as a manager in a café. Her boyfriend Emir was born in Freiburg, lives in Frankfurt/M. and is considered jealous. He pretends to be Spanish ("Emilio") and claims to be a physiotherapist.
read Janine's storyIt is ultimately a matter of discretion whether one sees an honor motive in this crime. It could also be an act of jealousy. However, that would raise the question of why the perpetrator killed not his rival - but his girlfriend.
read Joanna's storyMustafa lives in Cologne with his wife and four children, whom he probably mistreats. There are reports of his wife and daughters. The Turkish-Kurdish security guard has had a mistress, Laura, for years.
read Laura's storyErkan gilt als gewalttätig. Seine Frau Gülhan hat er bereits mehrfach auf offener Straße geschlagen. Am 12. Februar 2010 wird in der Wohnung der Familie so laut gestritten, dass Nachbarn die Polizei rufen.
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