Violence against women, the police in Germany register an attempted killing every day. In 2020 alone, 139 women lost their lives at the hands of their husbands or ex-partners. Two shocking cases from Brandenburg, which made just eight children orphans.
By Jörg Bergmann and Matthias Lukashewitsch
The first case
The last entry by Christian P. (41) on Facebook announced good news. There he posted on March 1st that he had married his longtime girlfriend Josefine U. (43).
Hours later happiness is swimming in blood, Josefine lies dead in the kitchen. Stabbed with a knife by her husband.
A neighbor called the police on Am Schlangenfenn in Potsdam last Tuesday at 2:36 p.m. She had heard screams and rumblings.
Christian P. also stabbed his wife’s daughter (20). Her son Jamie (17) and their two young children (1 and 2) had to watch everything. The daughter is in the hospital but is out of danger, according to investigators.
The other children are currently being cared for by friends, and a pastor is also taking care of them there. The man who made them half-orphans was arrested in front of the house.
The police noticed Christian P. earlier. He is saved with the keywords: “mental behavioral disorders, violent, intensive offender Berlin/Brandenburg, BTM consumer”.
He stabbed his wife after an argument while on drugs, he told crime scene officials. When they tied him up, he wailed that he wanted to kill himself…
The second case
Also in Fehrbellin (Ostprignitz-Ruppin) a father made his four children orphans. Hüseyin U. (36) is said to have killed his wife (33) and buried her body in a pit on a garden plot. According to the police, it must have happened between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. on the night of February 20-21.
Four days later, a relative reported the woman missing. She ran to the arbor on February 20 after an argument with her husband. The children stayed behind in the apartment.
Only Hüseyin U. is said to have come back around one o’clock in the morning with muddy shoes. The caller worried: “She would never leave her children alone.”
On February 24, the father flew head over heels to Turkey with the children. Relatives with whom he wanted to hide took him to the police a day later. He was interrogated and then released.
Last Sunday, Hüseyin U. suddenly confessed to his family. A Turkish judge issued an arrest warrant.
Officials from the Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office finally found the body of a woman in the garden. Suspicion: It is the mother of the four children.