Fatma S. born: 1967
stabbed to death: 20 March 2006
Residence: Hamburg-Eißendorf
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2 daughters (7 and 13 years old at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Attila (40 years old)
Fatma and Attila come from the same Turkish province and are "promised" to each other in a kind of forced child marriage. First Attila moves to Germany and works as a welder in a shipyard. He is given a German passport. Around 1992, Fatma also moves to Hamburg. The two have two daughters.
In the bedroom of the family's flat, Attila stabs his wife to death on 20 March 2006 and then cuts off her head. With this, he goes to a gas station and has the gas pump attendant call the police. In custody, he goes on a rampage. The two daughters were sleeping in their room at the time of the crime and were taken into the care of the Red Cross.
This case can be read as a psychiatric case. Drugs and psychotropic medications play a role. However, the doctors had classified the perpetrator as harmless.
The case can also be read as an honor killing. Attila was an Islamist; he insulted women without headscarves as infidels. He forced his wife to wear a headscarf. As a motive for his crime, he claims he wanted a divorce by killing her. The judge locked him up in a mental institution.