Sashu
born:
stabbed to death: August 11, 1985
Residence: Kassel
Origin: Eritrea
Children: Sashu and her husband had several children from both of their first marriages, plus two children together: a boy and a girl 3 days old
Perpetrator: her husband Hangambes Tesfamicael (44 years old at the time of the crime)

Sashu and Hangambes Tesfamicael live in a small Eritrean colony in Kassel. Both have children from their first marriage, plus a son together. There are huge marital problems. Tesfamicael accuses his wife of prostitution, says a newspaper, which probably means he calls her a whore. In the summer of 1985, she flees to a shelter for women.

An Eritrean council meets and urges Sashu to return to her husband.

The mediators are not concerned with the domestic violence, but with whether Sashu had contacts with men in Sudan. That is where she had fled to before her husband brought her into Germany.

Before the council meets again, Sashu gives birth to her daughter at the city hospital. Three days later, Tesfamicael visits her and stabs her eleven times with a kitchen knife.

The district court in Kassel sentences the killer to 15 years in prison for murdering and assaulting another woman in November 1986. The judge calls the act "the most heinous thing imaginable."