Honour killing stories 2020

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Florentina / Flory P.
born: 1983
killed: 8 January 2020
Residence: Borgholzhausen (NRW)
Origin: Romania
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her friend Nicolae I. (36 years)

Early in the morning on January 8, 2020 police find Flory's body with a cracked skull in her apartment in Borgholzhausen, north of Bielefeld. First 2 men are arrested, then there is a warrant for the arrest of her life partner.

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Fitore P.
born: 1987
shot: 7/8 February 2020
Location: Landau
Origin: Kosovo
Children: 2 (7 and 9 years old at the crime)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Astrit P. (32 years old at the crime)

During a traffic control in the district of Germersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate), the police find one dead at night on 8 February 2020. She has gunshot wounds and is lying on the co-driver's seat, the driver is carrying a firearm.

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Sharam K.
born: 1989
murdered: 19 January 2020
Location: Ibbenbüren (near Osnabrück)
Origin: Victim: Iraq; Perpetrator: Syria
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: Almahdi A. (26 years at the crime)

At the end of 2016, Ahmadi comes to Germany with his wife, who is 10 years older than him, and a little daughter. In the autumn of 2019 they will split up, but will probably live together again later.

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Sala and Rada
born: 1977, 2000
Attempted murder: 4 January 2020
Location: Bretzfeld (near Heilbronn)
Origin: Syria
Children: 1 other son (12 years old at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her ex-husband (44 years)

Sala has at least 2 children, a 12 year old son and a 19 year old daughter. On 4 January 2020, her ex-husband kicks in the front door of her flat and attacks her with a knife. The daughter stands in between and is seriously injured.

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Nader
born: 1999
stabbed: February 8, 2020
Location: Bocholt (NRW)
Origin: Victim: Afghanistan, Perpetrator: Iraq
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: the ex-husband of his girlfriend (33 years)

Nader comes to Germany as a refugee from Afghanistan and works as an aid worker. He also plays soccer in the 3rd team of the 1st FC Bocholt. He starts a relationship with a 5 year older woman. On 8 February 2020 he is stabbed to death on the street by her ex-husband.

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Mona
born: 1971
stabbed to death: February 11, 2020
Location: Bielefeld
Origin: Perpetrator: Cape Verde Islands
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend (48 years old at crime)

Till 2019 Mona has a relationship with a man from the Cape Verde Islands. These are located in northwestern Africa, roughly at the level of Senegal. After the divorce, the Cape Verdean man becomes violent and in July 2019 there will be a report to the criminal court.

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Ann-Kathrin K.
born: 1992
strangled: February 12-13, 2020
Residence: Hohn / Rendsburg (near Kiel)
Origin: Perpetrator: Tunisia
Children: 1 baby (6 months old at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: Hamza D. (24 years)

Ann-Kathrin checks into a hotel in Rendsburg with her ex-boyfriend Hamza and their 6 month old baby. On the night of February 13, 2020, he strangles her. There was already a restraining order against him for violating the law on protection against violence.

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Brigitte H.
born: 1982
stabbed: February 18, 2020
Residence: Bad Soden-Salmünster (Hesse)
Origin: Perpetrator: Croatian
Children: 1 daughter, 1 son (13 and 15 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Rudolf (42 years)

On February 18, 2020, Rudolf stabs his wife Brigitte to death with a kitchen knife in front of his children in the early morning. Neighbors call the police. The perpetrator first flees the scene of the crime, but reports to the police the same day.

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Onalia Cendy
born: 1990
strangled: February 24, 2020
Location: Dortmund
Origin: Iraq / Kurds / Yazidi
Children: 4 (2-7 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband (41 years)

On Carnival Monday 2020 Onalia's husband calls the ambulance service early in the morning. Onalia's body is found in the apartment. The cause of death is "massive violence to the neck". The man has been arrested.

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Homa Z. and her daughter
born: 1982
Murder: February 29, 2020
Residence: Berlin-Marzahn
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: unclear, how much
Perpetrator: Ali H. (32 years old at that time)

It is unclear whether the motive in this case is honor or greed. At the end of 2014 Homa and her family will come from Afghanistan to Germany. She has at least one daughter, but probably more children.

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Guiseppe
born: 1994
stabbed: 7/8 March 2020
Residence: Cologne
Provenance: Victim: Sicily; Perpetrator: Iraq
Children: 1 daughter (5 years old with the crime)
Perpetrator: Rechuas B. (25 years), brother of his girlfriend

Guiseppe's family comes from Sicily, he lives with his father in Cologne and works as a waiter. On March 8, 2020, he comes home from work early in the morning and gets into an argument with Rechuas, the brother of his Iraqi girlfriend or ex-girlfriend.

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Hassan
born: 1978
stabbed: February 19, 2020
Residence: Husum (North-Friesland)
Origin: Perpetrator: Turkey
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: Talat T. (31 years old at the crime), ex-husband of his girlfriend (24 years)

On 19 February 2020, Talat stabs his ex-wife's new boyfriend in her apartment and wounds him in a life-threatening way. Maybe it's just a friend of the ex-wife. Maybe it's someone she asked for protection.

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Baran
born: 2005
Murder: April 4, 2020
Residence: Augsburg
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: he was only 15 years old
Perpetrator: his brother-in-law (29 years at the time of the crime)

On April 4, 2020 there is a riot in a shelter for refugees in Augsburg-Göggingen. The police is called. The officers find a dead 15-year old. His mother is seriously injured and needs emergency surgery. A sister (20 years old) is also seriously injured.

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Besma Akinci
born: 1993
shot dead: April 15, 2020
Residence: Einbeck / Lower Saxony
Origin: Turks / Kurds / Jews
Children: 3
Perpetrator: her husband Cemal (48 years at the time of the crime)

This case is unclear: First, it is reported that a 48-year-old man shot his 27-year-old wife. He has the gun illegally. The whole case would have been an accident. The perpetrator calls the emergency number 911.

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Myriam Z.
born: 1983
killed: 8 April 2020
Residence: Leipzig
Origin: Germany; Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Children: 1 daughter (2 months)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Edris Z. (30 years at the time of the crime)

Myriam is a social worker and is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend Edris. He came to Germany from Afghanistan when he was 5 years old and has a German passport. He is not the father of their 2 month old daughter.

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Leila
born: 1993
murdered: 12 April 2020
Residence: Wuppertal
Origin: Morocco
Children: 1 (6 months)
Perpetrator: the father of the baby (43 years at the time of the crime)

Leila is - so they say - married "according to Moroccan law" and has a 6 months old baby of her 16 years older "husband". The perpetrator is called a German-Moroccan, she a Moroccan. One can assume an imported marriage.

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Stefanie N.
born: 1984
Murder: 1 May 2020
Location: Herne / NRW
Origin: unclear
Children: 2 (2 and 9 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Mario L. (39 years)

On May 1, 2020, neighbors hear suspicious noises from Stefanie's apartment in Herne-Wanne and call the police. The police find Stefanie's body. Cause of death is violence at the throat. The perpetrator, whose profession is declared as an occasional worker, is arrested in the apartment.

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Mesude
born: 1980
Attempted murder: 1 May 2020
Residence: Hamburg
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2 (10 and 12 years)
Perpetrator: her ex-husband Kalender E. (49 years at the time of the crime)

On May 1, 2020, Kalender storms the apartment of his ex-wife Mesude in Hamburg-Lurup. He stabs her, pours gasoline over his son and sets the child on fire. Mother and son are badly burned, a neighbor comes to help. Both are flown to a special clinic.

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Enisa
born: 1984
Killed: May 2, 2020
Location: Alsfeld (Hessen)
Origin: Syria
Children: 3 (6, 8, 10 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband (35 years)

On May 2, 2020, a Syrian murders his wife in the evening with a plasterer's axe in her apartment in Alsfeld (near Marburg). He flees with the 3 children they have together. The motive is that the mother did not want to continue the marriage.

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Laura K.
born: 1985
Attempted murder: May 5, 2020
Residence: Brandenburg an der Havel
Origin: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Children: 2 older, plus 1 common son (1 year)
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Nuri B. (32 years at the time of the crime)

Since March 2019 the relationship between Laura and Nuri has been violent. There is a ban on approaching her, she wants a divorce, the move to the women's shelter is prepared. On May 5, 2020, Nuri will stab her on the public road in Brandenburg-Görden.

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2 children
born: 2012 and 2014
Murder: 14 May 2020
Residence: Schwarzach (Bavaria)
Origin: unclear, perhaps Tunisia
Children: they were children themselves
Perpetrator: their father Samir A. (32 years at the time of the crime)

The story is unclear: The mother (29 years old) of a girl and a boy (6 and 8 years old) is divorcing her husband Samir. On May 14, 2020, the children go to visit their father. He kills them on the night of the 15th. Someone calls the police.

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Nahid N.
born: 1992
murdered: May 17, 2020
Residence: Cottbus
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: 3 (3, 6, 10 years)
Perpetrator: her husband Borhan N. (32 years at the time of the crime)

On May 17, 2020, an Afghan murders his wife on the public street in the Cottbus district of Neu Schmellwitz, and he does it this way: first he throws her out of the window on a canopy. There he strangles her and throws her in the street.

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Nadia
born: 1987
murdered: May 19, 2020
Residence: Freiberg (Saxony)
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (39 years old at the time of the crime)

On May 19, 2020, neighbors in an apartment building in Freiberg, Saxony, call the police because of a noisy quarrel. The cops find a dead Afghan woman in the hallway. Her husband has been arrested.

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Caroline Z.
born: 1981
killed: 28 May 2020
Location: Villingen-Schwenningen (Black Forest)
Origin: victim: Germany; perpetrator: unclear
Children: 3
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Simo Z. (49 years at the time of the crime)

Caroline stays in a shelter with 3 small children. One morning she returns to her apartment and is beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend Simo. A neighbor calls the ambulance service. The paramedic diagnoses her death.

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Violetta R.
born: 1982
stabbed to death: June 10, 2020
Location: Hagen (NRW)
Origin: Serbia / Kosovo / suspected Roma
Children: 1 daughter (3 years)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend David G. (24 years at the time of the crime)

The 24-year-old David is wanted in Serbia with an international arrest warrant for human trafficking. The police storm the apartment of his ex-girlfriend Violetta on 15 June 2020. She is 14 years older than him and has a 3 year old daughter (not his).

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Jane Doe
born: 1984
stabbed: 21 June 2020
Residence: Cloppenburg (Lower Saxony)
Origin: unclear
Children: 1 son (2 years)
Perpetrator: a man (19 years at the time of the crime)

On June 21, a man stabbed a mother to death in a refugee shelter in Cloppenburg. Witnesses find the 2-year-old son unharmed next to the blood-soaked body. Jane dies on the spot. The boy goes to youth care. The murder weapon has been found.

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Leyla
born: 1995
stabbed to death: 23 June 2020
Residence: Hamburg
Origin: unclear
Children: at least 1 son (11 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend (27 years)

If Leyla has a son of 11 at the age of 25, she will probably have been married off by her parents at the age of 13. This could indicate that she is from Afghanistan. Everything else is just as possible, also that she misstated the age at entry.

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Hanna
born: 1998
stabbed to death: July 3, 2020
Location: Leverkusen
Origin: Ethiopia
Children: no
Perpetrator: Tekeste G. (47 years at the time of the crime)

Tekeste has 3 children with his first wife in Ethiopia. Probably his 2nd wife is a German, through whom he has a residence permit. He also lives separated from her. For months he stalked the 25 year younger Hanna, who came to Germany at the age of 17.

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Dilek
born: 1998
Attempted murder: July 4, 2020
Residence: Heidelberg
Origin: unclear
Children: 1 daughter (2 years)
Perpetrator: her husband (23 years old at the time of the crime)

Little is known about this case: A 20-year-old woman has a 2-year-old daughter. They live in a social home in Heidelberg-Rohrbach. One may wonder whether this means a refugee shelter. On July 4, 2020, the 23-year-old man attacks them both with a knife.

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Razia M.
born: 1993
stabbed: July 6, 2020
Residence: Obergünzburg (Ostallgäu)
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: 2 daughters, 2 sons (4-14 years)
Perpetrator: Saleh M., her divorced living spouse (37 years old at the time of the crime)

Razia has 4 children at the age of 27. The eldest is 14 years old, which allows the conclusion that she was married at about 12 years of age. She still has 3 children and is divorcing her husband Saleh.

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Snijezana B.
born: 1966
Killed: July 16, 2020
Residence: Limburgerhof (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Origin: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband Ostoja (55 years old at the time of the crime)

On July 16, 2020, Ostoja murders his wife with a baseball bat and calls the police. The cops find the dead woman with a crushed skull. The arrest warrant is for treasonous murder. Nothing more is known.

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Mira
born: 1996
Attempted murder: 22 July 2020
Residence: Essen
Origin: Perpetrator: maybe Burkina Faso
Children: probably not
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend (25 years old at the time of the crime)

On 22 July 2020, a 24-year-old student is stabbed in the street by her ex-boyfriend. He flees, a manhunt is organized for him. At first it is emphasized that he was born in Würselen. During the manhunt it is then said that he has a dark skin color.

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Nicole
born: 1980
murdered: July 24, 2020
Residence: Arnstadt (Thuringia)
Origin: Victim: probably Germany; Perpetrator: Tunisia
Children: 2
Perpetrator: her divorced husband (49 years)

Nicole has 2 children with a man from Tunisia who has a German passport. She will get divorced in 2018. He will not accept that. Several acts of violence by the man against his wife are recorded in the registration systems.

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Tatjana S.
born: 2000
stabbed to death: August 6, 2020
Residence: Plateau's (Bavaria)
Provenance: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Children: 1 daughter (8 months)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Shahiq S. (28 years at the time of the crime)

In February 2013 Shahiq will come from Afghanistan to Germany. Since 2015 he is together with Tatjana, in November 2019 they will have a baby together. Presumably this will have a positive effect on his status, his asylum procedure has not yet been completed.

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Zena
born: 1977
stabbed to death: August 17, 2020
Residence: Bramsche (near Osnabrück)
Origin: unclear
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (48 years old at the time of the crime)

A man stabs his wife, she dies on the spot. The perpetrator comes to the hospital, another person (20 years old, maybe a son) is arrested. Unfortunately, nothing more is known. Except that all three of them lived in the refugee house Bramsche-Hesepe.

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Rosita
born: 1982
stabbed to death: September 2, 2020
Location: Wolnzach / Bavaria
Origin: Slovakia, possibly Roma
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (40 years old at the time of the crime)

This story starts with 3 question marks, it is difficult to judge what happened and what the facts are. On September 2, 2020, a Slovakian citizen stabs his wife to death in Wolnzach. The two could be Roma. But it is unclear.

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Bianca G.
born: 1993
stabbed to death: September 11, 2020
Location: Lübeck
Origin: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Turkey
Children: 1 son, 1 daughter (4 and 9 years at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Cenk D. (29 years)

In August 2020 office clerk Bianca will divorce her boyfriend Cenk, who works for a tobacco company. After that there are several police actions in the former shared apartment. On September 11, 2020, Cenk enters his ex-girlfriend's apartment and stabs her.

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Chanda
born: 1987
Attempted murder: 11 September 2020
Residence: Langen (near Frankfurt/M.)
Origin: Perpetrator: Pakistan
Children: at least 2
Perpetrator: her husband Taqi Khan (51 years at the time of the crime)

Chanda lives divorced from her husband, who is almost 20 years older. On September 11, 2020, she brings her children to school and kindergarten in the morning. She returns to her apartment. There her divorced husband attacks her with a hammer and tries to kill her.

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Naima
born: 1995
Murder: 12 September 2020
Residence: Euskirchen (NRW)
Origin: probably Morocco
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (42 years old at the time of the crime)

A North African woman is abused by her 17 year older husband, there is at least one police operation known in 2018. On September 12, 2020, the man stabs her in the shared apartment in Euskirchen near Bonn.

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Mara
born: 1984
Murder: 20 September 2020
Residence: Rastatt (at Karlsruhe)
Origin: Perpetrator: Syria
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (36 years old at the time of the crime)

Mara's husband is already forbidden to approach her when he stabs her in her apartment on September 20, 2020. Another man is seriously injured. The perpetrator has been arrested at the station of Rastatt.

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Drita
born: 1972
stabbed to death: October 8, 2020
Residence: Regensburg
Origin: Kosovo
Children: 3
Perpetrator: her husband (55 years old at the time of the crime)

On October 8, 2020, a 55-year-old Kosovar stabbed his wife Drita to death in their shared apartment in Regensburg. He reports to the police and is arrested. The body has been found. The couple had 2 adult children and a 15 year old teenager.

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Svitlana
born: 1974
stabbed: October 12, 2020
Residence: Nuremberg
Origin: Ukraine
Children: 1 daughter, 1 son (12 and 25 years)
Perpetrator: her husband Valerii K. (52 years at the time of the crime)

In the refugee year 2015, Svitlana comes to Germany with her husband Valerii and her two children from the Ukraine. She has worked as a nurse for 20 years and will start training as a geriatric nurse in Germany in September 2016.

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Sinem D.
born: 1991
Attempted murder: 26 October 2020
Residence: Dülmen / Hamm (NRW)
Origin: Turkey
Children: probably not
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Tercan M. (29 years old at the time of the crime)

Sinem is a hairdresser in Dülmen (near Münster) and will meet Tercan from Hamm in the spring of 2020. He spent 4 years in prison until March because of a series of thefts. When Sinem finds out, she breaks up after a relationship of a few weeks.

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Ayse
born: 1995
stabbed to death: October 27, 2020
Residence: Bremen
Origin: Perpetrator: Turkey
Children: unclear
Perpetrator: her husband (24 years at the time of the crime)

On October 27, 2020 a German Turk stabs his wife in their shared apartment in Bremen-Vegesack. Then he flees to his parents, who call the police. The rescue workers find the dead woman.

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Nuha
Born: 2000
murdered: November 3, 2020
Residence: Paderborn
Origin: Syria
Children: 3 daughters
Perpetrator: her husband Wahid A. (29 years at the time of the crime)

Nuha will be married in 2014 at the age of 14 to the 23-year-old Wahid in northern Syria. She becomes pregnant with twins and Wahid leaves for Germany in May 2015. In October, he brings the underage mother with the children.

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Ashtar
born: 1992
strangled: August 9, 2019
Residence: Lebach (Saarland) / Bad Salzschlirf (near Fulda)
Origin: Iraq
Children: 2
Perpetrator: her husband (27 years at the time of the crime)

Ashtar, 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.

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