By Axel Lier, Katharina Metag and Olaf Selchow
In a refugee accommodation on Wollenberger Straße in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, a man (50) stabbed and killed his wife (44) on Saturday afternoon.
According to BZ information, the couple’s five and 16-year-old children are said to have witnessed the crime. According to local residents, the older daughter finally desperately sought help. According to a police spokesman, the suspect was arrested at the accommodation. According to witnesses, the man had injured his wife so badly in an argument with a knife that she died at the scene. A security worker who tried to revive the woman had to be taken to a clinic in shock.
The background of the bloody deed and the specific motive of the stabber are currently still unclear. The second homicide squad took over the investigation. Forensic scientists secured clues in the refugee home well into the evening.
Forensic medicine employees collect the dead woman’s body from the refugee accommodation on Wollenberger Strasse (Hohenschönhausen) for the autopsy Photo: Olaf Selchow
The family comes from the Ukraine and has been in Berlin for three months. So far, the couple has been considered inconspicuous in the home, as spokesman for the State Office for Refugee Affairs, Sascha Langenbach, said yesterday. The traumatized children were handed over to the youth welfare office.
Only five months ago, the Afghan woman Zohra G. (31) was killed by her ex-husband (42) on the sidewalk in Pankow’s Maximilianstraße in front of her refugee accommodation.
The background of the bloody deed and the specific motive of the stabber are currently still unclear. Because she had left him, he rammed a 30-centimetre-long hunting knife into the mother-of-six and then cut her throat. The woman had previously reported the violent ex several times.