Carla
born: 1985
Attempted murder: 24 April 2017
Place of residence: Mönchengladbach-Rheydt
Origin: Turkey
Children: 1 son (at act 5 y.)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend (at act 38 y.)

Carla has a 5 year old son with her ex-boyfriend. On April 24, 2017 the parents meet in front of the day care center in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.

She gets in the car with him. After 2 hours of wandering he shoots at her. Later, at a crossroads where she calls for help, he shoots at her for the second time. He picks up his son and shoots at his ex-girlfriend again in a garage yard. Trying to kill her with a gun, he shoots himself in the leg.

Carla comes seriously injured to the hospital and is being operated on for several hours. In the following days she is operated several times. The son is taken care of by the Youth Welfare Office.

The perpetrator is arrested. In October 2017 the trial begins at the Regional Court Mönchengladbach for attempted murder of a person in 3 cases in unit of crime with dangerous bodily harm. It comes out that the perpetrator is already father of 5 children and had met a "woman from Iraq" at the time of the crime. In December, the perpetrator is sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempted manslaughter and dangerous assault. He must pay 50,000 euros in damages for pain and suffering. Carla is not the real name of the woman.