Berlin – Another femicide! The cruel murder of Nurhan B. (36) has shocked the capital. Now it has emerged: her 15-year-old daughter warned her mother about her vengeful father via WhatsApp shortly before the bloody crime.
In the message, she apparently wrote to her mother that her ex-husband (50) was lying in wait for her at home. According to BILD information, she had seen him in the area of the apartment in front of the house shortly before the crime.
But the warning came too late. On the way home to Hampstead Street in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Nurhan B. ran into the arms of her killer.
Investigators secured evidence late into the night
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Her ex-husband should not have been anywhere near her. A court had issued a protection order against violence with a restraining order against him. There had been repeated cases of “domestic violence” in the past, as senior public prosecutor Sebastian Büchner, spokesman for the Berlin Public Prosecutor General’s Office, told BILD.
“That sounded very serious”
On Wednesday evening, the man immediately attacked his wife, who was separated from him, with a knife in front of the house and stabbed Nurhan B. Neighbors were alerted by a scream. Benjamin T. (42) says: “My wife went downstairs. She wanted to see what was going on. That sounded very serious.”
Candles were placed at the bend of the road near the residential complex
Foto: Jörg Bergmann
As Anika T. walked down the small path to the street, she saw a man running back and forth. Benjamin T.: “His injured ex-wife was lying on the ground. The man was completely distraught and kept muttering: ‘You deserve it! It’s my right’.“
A neighbor tried to treat the wounds and stop the bleeding. “The woman had several stab wounds in her chest and back,” says Benjamin T.
Woman died in hospital
Nurhan B. was resuscitated on site and transported to the nearby Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin-Steglitz – emergency surgery! But she succumbed to her serious injuries a short time later.
The woman’s ex-husband was arrested at the crime scene that night, police said on Thursday morning.
Shortly after the fatal knife attack, a homicide squad took over the investigation
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The spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office continued: “The victim’s ex-husband is the suspect. There were repeated cases of domestic violence against the woman by the man in the relationship. Eventually the woman separated.” The family, who come from Lebanon, have four children together. They are staying with relatives.
“Femicides are a growing problem”
Benjamin Jendro, spokesman for the Police Union (GdP): “Femizide are a growing problem in our society, and yet it is difficult in the political arena to create frameworks to better protect vulnerable women.”
