On January 26, 2019, a Kazakh guy breaks into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Arnsberg. He stabs her. Neighbors call the ambulance service. Julia comes to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and undergoes emergency surgery.
read Julia's storyMilad is a Christian from Iraq. He works as a hairdresser in Salzgitter and is together with a Syrian woman who is Muslim.Her family doesn't like it because she is "promised" to a cousin. There are several lawsuits pending, which are not yet closed.
read Milad's storyHeba has her first child at the age of 18, they live in Germany since 2017. There she will have another child, who is 6 months old. On January 23, 2019 she is stabbed to death in her apartment. Around 3 o'clock the police is called.
read Heba's storyCan is a gas and water plumber and will be stabbed to death in the street on 30 January 2019 by the brothers Neckmohammad and Nazar. The reason is an affair with their sister a few years ago, which the brothers did not approve.
read Can's storyFatemeh (named Yasi) is a Christian from Iran and will come to Germany as a refugee alone in 2016. She learns German and works for a hotel in Lübeck. Elsewhere it is said that she wants to become a nurse.
read Fatemeh's storyYou can read this murder as an honour killing or as violence typical of the environment. Or as the act of a pimp who doesn't want to let his prostitute go. Stela is a prostitute and has an affair with the 23 year older Mehmet.
read Stela's storyOn 30 January 2019, a neighbor hears a cry for help early in the morning and calls the police. He tries to get into the neighbor's apartment. The police storm the apartment and find Romina covered in blood.
read Romina's storyIna works in an arcade in Fellbach. There her ex-boyfriend sprays pepper spray in her face late Saturday night. Then he beats her up. He rams a knife in her upper body, the blade breaks, the perpetrator flees.
read Ina's storyOn March 3, 2019 at 2 a.m., a Turk stabs his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in the parking lot of a discotheque. Lethally wounded, she is taken to the hospital and survives. The perpetrator flees and reports to the police the next afternoon with a family member.
read Mona's storyHoma comes from Afghanistan and lives separated from her husband. On March 10, 2019 another Afghan stabs her in her apartment in Halle. Homa bleeds to death. A friend finds the body. First, the tenant of the apartment named Shoriye is suspected.
read Homa's storyJara comes from Afghanistan and wants a divorce. Her husband does not accept this and puts her in the shared apartment in Rinteln in the Schaumburg district, between Bielefeld and Hanover, on March 12, 2019.
read Jara's storyIn the autumn of 2018 Cynthia and Ahmed will meet. She is a geriatric nurse and still lives with her parents in Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate). Cynthia starts to wear a headscarf and learns Arabic.
read Cynthia's storyJana has 2 daughters of elementary school age. But the children live with their grandmother. Jana works as a saleswoman in Preetz, near Kiel. On April 6, 2019, a 24-year-old Afghan citizen reports to the police.
read Jana's storyOn April 7, 2019, a man stabs a knife in the neck of his partner in her apartment. Neighbors call the police. The woman is taken to the hospital and survives. The perpetrator is arrested. Nothing else is known, not even the real name of the victim.
read Halice's storyOn April 8, 2019 Faruk tries to drive over his ex-girlfriend in the morning in front of the house in Bonn-Holzlar. Then he gets out of his car and hits her with a stone in front of the three-year-old daughter.
read Maryam's storyProbably at the age of 16, Enisa is forced to marry a 29 year old Syrian. The two have a daughter. Since the spring of 2018 the family is in Germany. They live in Maulbronn near Mühlacker in Baden-Württemberg in "Haus Schmie".
read Enisa's storyNaimas family comes from Afghanistan in 2015 with 4 children. On April 11, 2019 the man murders his wife. The children were then in the apartment. Neighbors alert the police. The perpetrator is arrested in the apartment.
read Naima's storyOn April 14, 2019, a man stabbed his wife in the shared apartment in the Neustadt district of Bremen with a knife in her throat. She is seriously injured and is taken to hospital, undergoes emergency surgery and survives.
read Aysha's storyOn March 28, 2019, a man stabs his wife to death in the Hemelingen district of Bremen and surrenders to the police. The woman is a mother of 6 children and bleeds to death in her apartment. Nationality and names are not known.
read Ayse's storyA Syrian family with 4 children lives in an apartment in Marburg-Cyriaxweimar. On April 20, 2019, the father stabbed his 11 year younger wife in the bathroom. He flees with the children. Neighbors bring the seriously injured woman to the hospital.
read Lihya's storyElena lives separated from her husband in Haiterbach, Baden-Württemberg. They have at least one daughter. In the night of Easter Monday to Tuesday her divorced husband is waiting for her when she comes home late at night. He stabs her.
read Elena's storyOn May 9, 2019, Mohammed Soultana shoots a German-Moroccan woman from a driving rental car, while waiting for her son in front of a fighting school. The woman is sitting in a Porsche. There is only one shot, it hits her in the neckline.
read Fatima's storyOn May 25, 2019, a 37-year-old Syrian stabs his wife, who is 10 years younger, in the district of Pforzheim in Brötzingen. The police find her badly wounded in the stairwell. She dies in the hospital.
read Abeer's storySamuel will arrive in 2013 from Nigeria via Italy to Germany. He is going back to Italy. His girlfriend is in Germany since 2012. Because they have 2 children, Samuel applies for family reunification and he is in Bremen since early 2019.
read Mala's storyThis murder can be seen as an alcohol fight with a fatal outcome. Or to cover up a rape. But it is also possible that there is a role for honour. Here are the facts: In a cafe in Hamburg-Neugraben there will be a party on the night of June 11, 2019.
read Joseline's storyIn May 2019 there is already an incident in which Youssef locks up his girlfriend and their baby. But Jessika refused to testify against him. On June 13, 2019 he stabbed her in the stairwell. Neighbors call the police.
read Jessika's storyOn 14 June 2019 a man stabs his wife to death in a car in a parking lot in Künzell in eastern Hesse. Witnesses call the police. Rada is taken to the hospital. She dies during the emergency surgery. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene of the crime.
read Rada's storyAt the age of 18, Hatice was married by her Turkish-Kurdish clan to a man who is 4 years older. They have 4 children, the youngest is less than one year old. On June 18, 2019, the man stabs his wife in the apartment.
read Hatice's storyIn the spring of 2019 the Turkish-Kurdish Zilan falls in love with a classmate from Lebanon. His name is Nisar, he has a German passport. Zilan's father and her brothers disagree. In 2019 Zilan and Nisar drive one night to the Waldfriedhof Meckenheim and park there.
read Nisar's storySeda is a fitness trainer from Gelsenkirchen, divorced, 2 children Faruk is married and has 4 children. For unknown reason he has been stalking Seda since 2017, probably because of a rejected love. There are several accusations against him.
read Seda's storyIvana is a cleaning lady and together with the 10 year younger Kevin from Weinstadt. He works for a food producer. They split up. On July 4, 2019 Ivana meets her ex-boyfriend. On July 8, 2019 her employer reports her missing.
read Ivana's storyLeila's family lives in a refugee shelter in Weilburg-Waldhausen, Northeast-Limburg in Hesse. On July 8, 2019 her husband stabs her. A rescue helicopter flies the seriously injured woman to the hospital. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene of the crime.
read Leila's storyYara and Mehmadali have children - not clear how many. Since she is only 19, it is probably 2. In February 2019 he moves out of the shared apartment in Siegburg near Bonn. In the afternoon of July 10, Mehmadali stabs his ex-girlfriend in the hallway several times with a knife.
read Yara's storyBetül is 23 years old and together with the 6 year older Sehmuz. On July 8, 2019, the boyfriend visits her family's apartment, but they don't approve of the relationship. Both families are enemies. Betül's family has chosen another man for her (Berlin in 2019).
read Sehmuz' storySelda is 19 years old, has 2 sons and is pregnant again. It sounds a bit like a forced marriage at the age of 15. Selda is getting a divorce. On July 10, 2019 Mehmedali wants to pick up his older son (3 years old). In front of the child he stabs his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
read Selda's storyOn the night of July 12, 2019, a Tunisian meets his 36-year-old ex-wife on the streets of Salzgitter at 2 am. She belongs to a Lebanese clan, 2 sisters and another related woman are present. The ages of the women are indicated as 20-52 years.
read Gadi's storyJawed is married, probably to an Iranian woman. He has had a second wife for 8 years and with her 2 children. Her name is Olga, she is probably Russian or Polish. In the night of July 13, 2019 Jawed feigns a car accident by driving his car "controlled" against a tree.
read Olga's storyOn 14 July 2019, a 23-year-old Bulgarian stabs his 2-year older girlfriend (or wife) with a kitchen knife. When he thinks she is dead, he calls the police. The cops find the woman seriously injured. After an emergency operation her life is still in danger.
read Marta's storyKatera was born in Germany and is studying to become a dental assistant. Her family has been living here for 23 years and she has 5 children. Yet Katera is supposed to have married under duress. She separates herself from the family.
read Katera's storyNasi is 18 years old and lives since 2015 with her mother Najiba in Halle (Saale). Rami is 30 years old and lives in France. One can only assume that Nasi should marry him. Presumably she refuses.
read Nasi's storyBahar and Eyup run a grill in Lippstadt-Benninghausen. They have a son together, Bahar an older daughter from a previous marriage. In the spring of 2019 they will split up. On July 21, 2019, Bahar will hand over the restaurant to her husband.
read Bahar's storyMaryam lives in Zwickau in Saxony and will visit a friend in the Dortmund district of Lütgendortmund for a few weeks in the summer of 2019. She takes care of their children (5 and 9 years). This is probably already an escape from her violent husband.
read Maryam's storyKatharina and David live in the chic Oberkassel district of Düsseldorf. She is getting a divorce and is moving. On August 3, 2019 she is back in the apartment, possible to get her things. David goes to the 33 years younger woman with a butcher knife.
read Katharina's storyJulka comes in 1993 from Serbia to Germany with her husband and 2 daughters. She lives in Delmenhorst and has another daughter and a son. They are getting a divorce, allegedly because it would be beneficial for granting asylum.
read Julka's storyAshtar, her husband and 2 children apply for asylum in Germany in January 2019 and move to Lebach in Saarland. She gets divorced and moves to friends in Bad Salzschlirf, Hesse. Somehow her ex-husband tracks her there and strangles her to unconsciousness in her friends' apartment on August 9, 2019.
read Ashtar's storyAhmed lives in an apartment in a hotel in Münster, where he used to work. On 11 August 2019 he pours petrol over his ex-wife and sets her on fire. It is unclear why she is in his apartment at all and takes a bath in the early morning.
read Claudia's storyShpejtim comes to Germany in 2001 and gets a residence permit by marrying a German. The marriage has meanwhile been terminated. Shpejtim is looking for a new wife in Kosovo and will marry Nafiye in 2013. Also for her it is the 2nd marriage.
read Nafiye and Amir's storyOn September 4, 2019, shortly after midnight, neighbors call the police. Reem is found dead in a wooded area. The body indicates extreme violence. Her divorced husband Fadi then committed suicide, probably by throwing himself in front of a train.
read Reem's storyMine is a fairly modern woman, doctor's assistant, but does not work. Her family is from Afghanistan, Mine also has a German passport. Since 2013 she is married to the logistics assistant Ercan. His family is from Turkey.
read Mine's storyAysa (of which the real name is not known) is 31 years old. She and her husband Ibrahim have 2 children of 11 and 13 years old. This suggests a forced marriage. On 8 September 2019 Ibrahim stabs his wife in the shared apartment in Hannover-Vahrenwald.
read Aysa's storyMira's family will come from Iraq to Germany in 2014. When she is 15 years old, she will marry a cousin unknown to her. In March 2019 the "engagement" with the 23-year-old is announced. A lawsuit in connection with rape follows, which ends with a conviction of the "fiancée" for assault.
read Mira's storyIn September 2018 Helin will divorce her boyfriend. On 20 September 2019 he will be waiting for her on a platform of the subway station Jahnplatz in Bielefeld. He grabs her in a head grip. Then he sticks a knife in her face and head. Later there is talk of "a multitude of knife stings".
read Helin's storyOn October 10, 2019 Sam murders his ex-girlfriend Günay with dozens of knife wounds. It is said that the two were separated, but still lived together. That night they buy a kitchen knife at the supermarket.
read Günay's storyIn the night of October 13, 2019 Zeljko enters through the balcony door the apartment of his ex-girlfriend in Hamburg-Heimfeld. He stabs her and tries to cut off her head. Then he wounds the neighbor (61 years old) who is also present.
read Vera's storyAn 18-year-old Kurd does not accept that his sister has a boyfriend from India. Although he, the Kurd, has a German passport. The Indian family lives in Lehrte near Hanover. On October 18, 2019, the Kurd summons 15 people from his clan to beat up Amar.
read Amar's storyImad's family comes from Tunisia. He was born in Germany, has a German passport and works as a machine operator. Muri (in some articles her name is Sana, perhaps a nickname) comes from Tunisia to Germany around 2013 with a student visa, gets a German passport and dual nationality through marriage.
read Muri's storyOn November 6, 2019, a man stabbed his divorced wife in a bakery in Delmenhorst. She is seriously injured and is taken to hospital, but survives. The perpetrator has been arrested. The real names of those involved are not known.
read Arin's storyOn November 26, 2019 a Romanian man stabs his wife in her apartment. She dies in the clinic. The perpetrator is arrested in the stairwell. He still had the knife with him. Nothing is known about the woman's nationality, not even if the two were Roma.
read Magda's storyRaghad comes to Germany with the wave of refugees in 2015. She has 2 children whose father is dead. She meets the Syrian Darda, who doesn't move in with her, but often stays overnight. Nevertheless, they will get a divorce.
read Raghad's storyAjda works as a cleaning lady in a kebab bakery in Essen-Kray. There she is cleaning when on December 13, 2019 her ex-boyfriend hits a knife in her neck in the morning. Employees call the rescue service. Ajda survives.
read Ajda's storyOn December 13, 2019, a 55-year-old man stabs his 37-year-old wife to death in her apartment in Aschaffenburg-Schweinheim. The man has been arrested. The woman is said to be from Albania. Nothing else is known, the rest is speculation.
read Anisa's storySamar and Rebwar come to Germany from Iraq. They live in Berlin-Spandau, have a daughter and a son. In the autumn of 2019 they split up, probably after a seriously violent relationship. About 2 months later Rebwar lures his wife into an ambush and stabs her in the neck several times.
read Samar's storyAt the age of 15 Maryam married her cousin Ghafur. Later she comes to Germany and works in geriatric care. They have a son and live in Idstein in the south of Hesse. In November 2019 Maryam is getting a divorce.
read Maryam's storyJeta already has 7 children at the age of 33 years. Her husband stabbed her on December 27, 2019. She dies, the perpetrator goes to the police. The children were in the apartment during the crime, but did not see the murder.
read Jeta's storyOn December 29, 2019 a man stabs a knife in his wife's neck in Schlangenbad-Georgenborn. He calls the police and claims that his wife has been injured in an accident. The woman is taken to hospital, undergoes emergency surgery and survives.
read Aliya's storyOn March 10, Süleyman stabs the two children in their apartment. The mother is not there at the time of the crime. He injures himself, and then calls the ambulance. He confesses that he cut his children's throats with a kitchen knife.
read Ajda's storyOn May 4, 2019, a man stabs his ex-girlfriend in Bielefeld-Stieghorst on the public road near her apartment. The victim is badly injured when she reaches the hospital and survives. The perpetrator is arrested.
read Isa's storyXena comes with her husband and 2 children from Ukraine to Germany. She gets divorced in 2019, cancels the rent of the communal flat in Wolfsburg and wants to move to Bochum. On Whit Monday 2019 her husband stabs her 22 times.
read Xena's storyIn the summer of 2019 a Jordanian sends pictures of his girlfriend to the family in Jordan. In the photos the woman is not veiled. She has 2 small children with an ex-husband, with whom she might get together again later on.
read Hassan's storyIn the early morning of September 2, 2019, a man shoots his girlfriend in the head on the open street in Maintal-Dörnigheim. The victim is seriously injured and is taken to hospital, undergoes emergency surgery and survives.
read Eda's storyDanilo is 33 years old and known to the police. He has a Dominican and a German passport. The latter probably because of his marriage to Sabine, who is 18 years older. A newspaper article later describes her as a "very well-groomed qualified business administrator".
read Sabine's storyWhat is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…