born: 1990
stabbed and run over: 1 January 2009
Residence: Harsewinkel (near Gütersloh)
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: her cousin and husband Önder B., aged 26 at the time of the crime.
The Kurdish woman Müdje B. (in some newspapers she is also called Mizgin) was born in Germany and married a cousin in Turkey at the age of 17. Since she is still in school, the imported groom cannot come to Germany in 2007 as part of the family reunification.
read Mizgin's storyborn 1958
shot: January 3, 2009
Residence: Berlin
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2 daughters from her first marriage (ages 24, 27)
Perpetrator: her Turkish husband Turgut, age 58 at the time of the crime.
Ayse came to Germany in 1979 because she married a doctor of Turkish origin in Berlin. It is possible that she is an imported bride. There are two daughters from the marriage, who live with their mother after they divorced in the early 1990s.
read Ayse's storyborn: 1958
stabbed: 21 January 2009
Residence: Wiesbaden
Origin: perpetrator: Iran
Children:
Perpetrator: her husband Javad B. (age 52 at the time of the crime)
In the afternoon of January 21, 2009, Javad, an Iranian, stabs his one year younger wife to death in their shared apartment. He informs the police and is arrested without resistance. The act was preceded by many divorces.
read Özlem's storyBorn: 1972
stabbed: 6 February 2009
Residence: Mönchengladbach
Origin: Iraq / Kurds
Children: two sons (ages 2, 6) from a previous marriage
Perpetrator: her partner Mahmoud Ahmad (or Ahmed Ghassan Abdelmajid)
In March 2008, the 37-year-old Iraqi woman married in the Netherlands under Islamic law. She has two sons (ages 2 and 6) from a previous relationship. It is unclear whether they live with their mother or with their Iraqi father (age 39).
read Farida's storyborn: 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.
read Marita's storyBorn: 1982
stabbed: 7/8 February 2009
Residence: Groß-Börnecke / Saxony-Anhalt
Origin: victim: Germany; perpetrator: Turkey
Children: she was heavily pregnant
Perpetrator: her husband Cengiz Küfte (at the time of the crime 29 years old)
Claudia was pregnant and was due to give birth in early March 2009. But four weeks before the due date, she is stabbed to death by her husband Cengiz. The two had married in Turkey in August 2008.
read Claudia's storyBorn: 1972
Attempted murder: February 28, 2009
Residence: Berlin
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2
Perpetrator: Volkan P., her divorced husband (aged 41 at the time of the crime)
Sevtap was stabbed in the street by her divorced husband at around 5 o'clock in the morning. Her companion Hakan (age 31) is also attacked. Both survive seriously injured and are hospitalized. In the afternoon, the perpetrator also goes to the hospital, probably to attack his wife again.
read Sevtap's storyborn: 1989
killed: 2 March 2009
Residence: Rees (near Krefeld)
Origin: Turkey / Courden
Children: none
Perpetrator: her triplet brother Davut, at the time of the crime already 13 years in Germany
Gülsüm is 20 years old and works at Mc Donald's. Her Kurdish family came to Germany from Turkey in 1995, initially as asylum seekers. Gülsüm falls in love with 25-year-old materials tester Altin P. Her family opposes the relationship.
read Gülsüm's storyBorn: 1985
Burned alive: 2 March 2009
Residence: Munich
Origin: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Daryoush (age 29 at the time of the crime)
The customer service employee Lena (Magdalena) had met her boyfriend at her workplace in the DIY store OBI. The German-Afghan worked there as an area manager. He is considered well integrated, but he lists Islam as one of his hobbies.
read Lena's storyborn 1966
shot dead: 9 March 2009
Residence: Gifhorn (Lower Saxony)
Origin: Turkey
Children: 1 daughter, 1 son (aged 14 and 20 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Mehmet (at the time of the crime 45 years old)
In 1987, Mehmet and Narun marry in Turkey. He takes her to Germany and keeps her isolated. He cuts her off from the outside world, as the son says later in court. Narun does not learn German and does not work. He works at an auto supplier in shifts.
read Narun's storyBorn: 1974
Attempted murder: 11 March 2009
Residence: Wülfrath (near Wuppertal)
Origin: Turkey
Children: 5
Perpetrator: her divorced husband Saban (age 37 at the time of the crime)
Fatma and Saban were married by their parents in an arranged marriage. Saban insinuates that his wife is having an affair with his friend and beats her until she is hospitalized with injuries. In February 2009, she evicts him from their shared apartment in Wülfrath.
read Fatma's storyborn 1968
stabbed: 25 March 2009
Residence: Hamburg
Origin: Victim: Germany; Perpetrator: Turkey
Children: 1 son (age 9 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Suat (at the time of the crime 40 years old)
The three-year relationship between Nicole and Suat is characterized by his violence and delusion of control. At one point, he hits her so hard that her eardrum ruptures. Eight charges have been filed against the bodybuilder.
read Nicole's storyborn: 1984
Strangled: April 20, 2009
Residence: Cologne
Origin: Turkey
Children: 1 daughter (age 3 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Zafer K. (at the time of the crime 33 years old)
Zafer was born in Germany and works as an engineer in power systems electronics. At his brother's wedding in Turkey, he meets Aylin (some call her Baha). She studies business administration, but quits and moves to Germany in 2002.
read Aylin's storyborn: 1987
stabbed: 9/10 June 2009
Residence: Recklinghausen
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: her Turkish ex-boyfriend Serif Ö. (age 33 at the time of the crime)
Presumably in early 2009, Nurcan, who lives in Mannheim and holds a German passport, is disowned by her Turkish family and forced to have an abortion. She flees to Recklinghausen, works in an Internet café/tea store, and falls in love with her boss Serif, who according to Islamic law is married to another woman, with whom he has at least one son (age 6).
read Nurcan's storyBorn: 1985
Attempted murder: 23 June 2009
Residence: Hachenburg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Origin: Turkey
Children: unknown
Perpetrator: her father (metal caster, age 53 at the time of the crime)
In January 2009 Nazan takes over a hair salon in Hachenburg in the Westerwald. In June, her father enters the store with a knife and stabs her, allegedly because she has a married boyfriend. An insurance agent who happens to be there intervenes.
read Nazan's storyborn 1994
stabbed: 24 June 2009
Residence: Schweinfurt (Bavaria)
Origin: Turkey
Children: none, she was only 15 years old
Perpetrator: her father Mehmet, operator of a kebab store (45 years old at the time of the crime), in Germany for 20 years
In the night of June 24, 2009, Mehmet Ö. stabbed his 15-year-old sleeping daughter Büsra. The family has two other (younger) children and has never attracted attention until now. The father, they say, is strictly religious.
read Büsra's storyBorn: 1986
Strangled: 28 June 2009
Residence: Althengstett / Schramberg (near Stuttgart)
Origin: Victim: Romania; Perpetrator: Turkey / Kurd
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: her ex-boyfriend Rüfet Carboga (aged 45 at the time of the crime)
Cristina is 18 when she moves in with 40-year-old Turk Rüfet, a kebab store owner who has been married 4 times. At 23, she breaks up with him and takes a job as a waitress. On June 28, 2009, Rüfet strangles her and takes the body to a canola field, where it is found around midnight.
read Cristina's storyBorn: 1987
Attempted murder: July 5, 2009
Residence: Aschaffenburg
Origin: Turkey
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: her brother (18 years old at the time of the crime)
During an argument in the apartment of a Turkish family of six, an 18-year-old attacks his two sisters with a knife. The 22-year-old falls into a coma, the 21-year-old is slightly injured. The perpetrator is the only son in the family.
read Hülya's storyborn: 1985
stabbed: 19/20 July 2009
Residence: Munich
Origin: Afghanistan
Children: one daughter (age 3 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: Mohammed Zafar (28 years old), father of her daughter
Nesima has lived in Munich for many years. In 2008, a man comes from Afghanistan, claiming to be married to her according to the law there. She may have been forcibly married to the cousin on a family vacation.
read Nesima's storyborn: 1987
stabbed: 22 July 2009
Residence: Landau (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Origin: Victim: Poland/Germany; Offender: Iraq
Children: 1 daughter (4 years), 1 son (1 year)
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Basim Mohammed Hussein (aged 34 at the time of the crime)
Basim is considered to be jealous. Although he has lived in Germany for ten years, he speaks (at least in court) only broken German. There is a lot of fighting in the young family, neighbors say. Beata wants a divorce.
read Beata's storyborn 1982
stabbed: 30 July 2009
Residence: Cologne
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2 sons (at the time of the crime 8 and 9 years old)
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Erdal D. (at the time of the crime 35 years old)
Ayse is married to Tuncay (29 years old), lives in Wuppertal and has two sons. In the spring of 2009 she divorces her husband, the sons stay with him. She moves in with her sister Senem (age 32) in Cologne.
read Ayse's storyborn: 1980 and 1985
shot dead: 10 August 2009
Residence: Schweinfurt
Origin: Iraq / Kurds
Children: Sinat has 2 daughters, Idris has 5 children
Perpetrator: presumably Idris' cousin Basar A. (at the time of the crime 28 years old)
Sinat is divorced and works as a single mother of two daughters in a craft business in Schweinfurt. Her husband is back in Iraq. Idris is married and has five children. Sinat is Idris' sister-in-law, so he is having an affair with his wife's sister, which the families do not approve of.
read Sinat's storyDer Leiter eines Dresdner Wohnheims für Asylbewerber findet am Morgen des 16. Dezembers 2009 die Leiche der Abiturientin Susanna. Die Polizei leitet eine Großfahndung nach dem mutmaßlichen Täter ein.
read Selma's storyborn 1973
Strangled: September 8, 2009
Residence: Jengen / Ostallgäu
Origin: Victim: Germany; Offender: Egypt
Children: 1 daughter (aged 5 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Ahmed (at the time of the crime 35 years old)
On September 8, 2009, English teacher Andrea turned 37 years old. Supposedly on this day, her husband strangles her. It is said that he gambled money and that his wife wanted to divorce him. Ahmed picks up their daughter Laila from kindergarten and leaves.
read Andrea's storyborn 1978
stabbed: 30 September 2009
Residence: Wiesbaden
Origin: Turkey
Children: 2 daughters (aged 11 and 13 at the time of the crime)
Perpetrator: her husband Hazan E. (38 years old)
At the age of 16, Nurdan was married in Turkey. Her father is violent and removes her from school in the 5th grade. Nurdan has two daughters. Five years after marriage, her husband dies. Her mother marries a new man.
read Nurdan's storyborn: 1980
stabbed: 13 October 2009
Residence: Cologne
Origin: Victim: Germany, Perpetrator: Jordan
Children: three (at the time of the crime 4, 6, 13 years old)
Perpetrator: her divorced husband Feras Issa Saleh A. (at the time of the crime 35 years old)
In early 2009, the Jordanian moved with his German wife and three children to the Cologne neighborhood of Bilderstöckchen. Because he abuses his wife, she receives a restraining order with a no-contact order.
read Hanna's storyBorn: 1972
Shot: 17 October 2009
Residence: Groß-Umstadt (near Darmstadt)
Origin: Turkey
Children: 1 boy, 2 girls (at the time of the crime 19, 15, 7 years old)
Perpetrator: her husband Ismet (age 42)
Ismet was born in 1967 in Erlangen and brought 17-year-old Figen as a bride from Turkey in 1988. The couple initially moves to Erlangen. Later, both have German and Turkish citizenship. He works as a courier. They have three children.
read Figen's storyborn: 1983
stabbed: 10 November 2009
Residence: Darmstadt
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Hür S. (age 24 at the time of the crime)
Büsra (in a report she is called Emine) and Hür have been a couple for 4 years and study mechatronics at the University of Darmstadt. On November 10, 2009, Büsra comes to the university to learn the grade of her final exam.
read Büsra's storyborn 1986
nearly beaten to death with an axe: 11 november 2009
Residence: Dusseldorf
Origin: Victim: Jordan; Offender: Kuwait/Palestinian
Children: 1 son (at the time of the crime 5 or 8 years old)
Perpetrator: her divorced husband (at the time of the crime 35 years old)
An unemployed Palestinian cook and a then 15-year-old Jordanian woman married in 2001 and lived with their son in Düsseldorf. The father has a German passport, mother and child will presumably get one too. There are sexual assaults.
read Raina's storyborn: 1976
shot dead: 13 November 2009
Residence: Wülfrath (near Wuppertal)
Origin: Turkey
Children: 3 sons (at the time of the crime 8, 11, 14 years old)
Perpetrator: her husband Sedat (42 years old)
Filiz came to Germany at the age of 16, presumably as an import bride. With her husband Sedat she has three children. In the Islamic community, marriage is known to be problematic. Filiz divorces. But Sedat does not want to accept the divorce and threatens her with a bloodbath.
read Filiz' storyborn: 1984
Strangled: 22/23 November 2009
Residence: Rosenheim (near Munich)
Origin: perpetrator: Tunisia
Children: none
Perpetrator: her partner (21 years old at the time of the crime)
Natalie is a secretary and meets a Tunisian in a disco in early 2007. They go to live together in Rosenheim. It is said about the Tunisian that he was born in Munich, while another says he speaks only broken German.
read Natalie's storyborn 1978
shot dead: 23 November 2009
Residence: Gaildorf (Schwäbisch-Hall district)
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: Mehmet Celik, her husband, who lives separately
(at the time of the crime 43 years old)
Because of "several incidents" Mehmet is no longer allowed to approach his wife. The divorce date is already set. He moves out of the shared flat in Gaildorf, Baden-Württemberg, and stays in northern Germany.
read Nazime's storyBorn: 1956 (or 1953) and 1971
Shot: November 24, 2009
Residence: Frankfurt/M.
Origin: Morocco
Children: 4, including 1 son (age 38 at the time of the crime), who was also shot
Perpetrator: her husband Abdulah (at the time of the crime 67 years old)
At the age of 14, Karima is married off in Morocco to Abdulah, who is more than 10 years older. Initially only the husband lives in Germany, after the birth of their 4 children the wife also comes to Frankfurt-Riederwald.
read Karima's storyBorn: 1963
stabbed to death: December 6, 2009
Residence: Rimsting (Upper Bavaria)
Origin: victim: Germany; perpetrator: Pakistan
Children: probably none
Perpetrator: her husband who lives separately
On December 6, 2009, a 37-year-old Pakistani stabbed his German wife, who was nine years older, to death with 14 knife stabs. They were separated and living in a separate apartment in Rimsting (near Rosenheim).
read Karina's storyborn: 1991
killed and strangled: December 16, 2009
Residence: Dresden
Origin: victim: Germany; perpetrator: Pakistan
Children: none
Perpetrator: her boyfriend Syed Asif Raza (age 32 at the time of the crime)
On the morning of December 16, 2009, the manager of a shelter for asylum seekers in Dresden finds the body of Susanna, who has finished her high school education. The police launch a massive manhunt for the alleged perpetrator.
read Susanna's story