Berlin – The killer returned to the crime scene. The father of the family, with blood on his hands, suddenly stood by the tape that the police had used to cordon off the crime scene and asked hypocritically: “Did something happen here?” People pointed at him: “There he is, that one it was!” The trial started on Tuesday.
HE comes from Afghanistan: Gul A. (42). Ex-Taliban, illiterate. He has been behind bars since April 29, 2022 and seven months to the day after the bloody crime, he is behind bulletproof glass in the dock.
The victim: Zohra A. was only 31 years old
accusation: Murder of wife Zohra (31) for base motives. According to the indictment, the “separation and intention to divorce she declared and her independent lifestyle” offended his pride and honor. He wanted to “prevent and punish her from having contacts with other men”.
SHE only knows a photo of him at the time of marriage, is 17 years old. Six children (3-13 years) follow. The refugee family has been living in Germany since 2020.
The guardian (right) who takes care of the six orphans. Next to the lawyer
The prosecution, a chronicle of her announced death:
► February 26, 2022, assault in the refugee home in Mühlenstraße. Two violent slaps, choking and pushing. He flies out of the home, can’t believe it. Want back. Pursue her.
► March 12, 2022, Heinz Knobloch Park (Pankow). A punch and she falls to the ground. death threats.
► April 29, 2022, intersection of Mühlenstrasse and Maximilianstrasse. 10 a.m., 13 stab wounds on the street. In the end, the killer grabs his wife’s head and cuts her throat. Nothing can save the young mother, she bleeds to death. At 1 p.m., witnesses recognize him among onlookers on the barrier tape.
The perpetrator: After the murder, Gul A. runs down Mühlenstraße with the knife in his hand. He later returns to the crime scene
He wants to say something, but not until the next day of the trial. “Beat during the day, rape at night” – this is how the sister of the dead later described Zohra’s short life to the police. “He bullied her. Prevented her from using contraception. Wanted more kids.”
In Germany she hoped he would change, adapt. For the first time she had the feeling of being worth something as a woman.
Next December 1st. Judgment on February 2nd.
The frightening femicide of Zohra, not an isolated case in Berlin
► Iraqi Omid R. (55) tortured his girlfriend Banafsheh K. (36) almost to death, mutilating her body and imprisoning her to die. She was saved only by accident. At the end of October, the man was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention. “It was femicide,” the judge said.
► At the beginning of October, the Ukrainian Ollena J. (44) was stabbed to death by her husband Esdisher J. (50) in a refugee accommodation in Alt-Hohenschönhausen. Your children had to see everything.