Zuhal
Born: 1969
shot dead: 20 or 29 January 1986
Residence: Heidenheim/Ellwangen (Baden-Württemberg)
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: her brother Kemal (14 years old at the time of the crime)

It is West Germany in the mid-1980s. Nobody is talking about honor killings. This is a particularly serious case, but it is difficult to reconstruct the details today.

In January 1986, 14-year-old Kemal shoots his 17-year-old sister to death on the street in Heidenheim. With the sentence "My honor is saved" he has himself arrested. The judge will later speak of an execution.

The sister had reported her father for domestic violence and had been removed from the family by youth services. She lived in a supervised institution and was training to be a hairdresser. The family is strictly religious and sends their 9 children to Koranic school.

The juvenile division of Ellwangen District Court sentenced Kemal to seven years in prison for murder during a non-public hearing. The maximum juvenile sentence would have been 10 years. The father demonstratively approved the crime in court. As far as is known, the parents are not charged with incitement to murder.

At the moment the only source of information is an old article, presumably from the FAZ (see below).

Zuhal's sisters, however, later manage (it is believed) to live a freer life.