A 33-year-old man allegedly killed his ex-partner with a kitchen knife and then himself. Two of the couple's three children were in the apartment at the time of the crime.
The motive of the alleged perpetrator is still unclear. More than a hundred women die in Germany every year at the hands of their partner or ex-Partner, according to figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) Every day there is also a police-registered attempted killing of a woman.