Marita born: 1960
stabbed: 6/7 February 2009
Residence: Schwabach / Franken
Origin: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Italy
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Nicola L. (age 48 at the time of the crime)
Marita and the southern Italian Nicola have been a couple since 2004. Because he is violent, she receives a restraining order in 2008. He does not want to accept this.
On the night of February 7, 2009, Nicola stabs his ex-girlfriend in her apartment. Afterwards, he calls an acquaintance and says that Marita is lying dead in her apartment. Together they go to the crime scene. The acquaintance calls the emergency doctor, Nicola goes to the pub. There he is later arrested.
In June 2010, the trial begins before the Nuremberg-Fürth court. The charges are infliction of dangerous bodily harm, attempted rape and murder. In July, Nicola is sentenced to life imprisonment.